How to disable zoom on a mobile web page using CSS?
To disable the zooming option with the multi-touch gesture we can use surefox browser but still, a user can zoom in or out by double tapping on the screen. We can use the <meta> tag to disable zoom in and out on a mobile web page.
Syntax:
<meta name="viewport" content= "width=device-width, user-scalable=no">
Steps to implement on mobile browser:
- Download opera mobile emulator
- Install the downloaded file, and run the emulator.
- Choose your device preferred devices from the list.
- Drag your file into that emulator to run the non_zoom-able file.
Non-zoomable Example:
Zoomable Example:
Example: This example uses user-scalable=no to disable zoom on mobile web page.
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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title> Disable Double-Tap to Zoom </title> <meta meta name="viewport" content= "width=device-width, user-scalable=no" /> <style> body { height:410px; width:600px; border: 2px solid green; } p { font-size:20px; padding:5px; margin:7px; width:270px; height:300px; border:2px solid green; } </style></head><body> <center> <h1 style="color:green;text-shadow: 1px 3px 2px #000"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <div> <p style=" float:left; "> It is a good platform to learn programming. It is an educational website. Prepare for the Recruitment drive of product based companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe etc with a free online placement preparation course. The course focuses on various MCQ's & Coding question likely to be asked in the interviews & make your upcoming placement season efficient and successful. </p> <p style="float:right;"> Also, any geeks can help other geeks by writing articles on the GeeksforGeeks, publishing articles follow a few steps that are Articles that need little modification/improvement from reviewers is published first. To quickly get your articles reviewed, please refer existing articles, their formatting style, coding style, and try to make you are close to them. </p> </div> </center></body></html> |
Output:
Example 2: This example uses user-scalable=no to disable zoom on mobile web page.
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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title> Disable Double-Tap to Zoom </title> <meta meta name="viewport" content= "width=device-width, user-scalable=no" /> <style> body { height:415px; width:630px; border: 2px solid green; } </style></head><body> <center> <h1 style="color:green"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <img src= alt="" style="width:396px; border:2px solid black; float:left; margin:7px;"/> <img src= alt=""style="width:196px; border:2px solid black; float:right; margin:7px;" /> <img src= alt="" style="width:396px; border:2px solid black; float:left; margin:7px;"/> <img src= alt="" style="width:196px; height:101px; border:2px solid black; float:right;margin:7px;"/> <p><b>Note:</b>Not zoomable on mobile</p> </center></body></html> |
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