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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web design—Mobile and WordPress with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515726
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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RACHEL MCCOLLIN RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-friendly 2. Using Responsive Themes FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up Media Queries 4. Adjusting the Layout 5. Working with Text and Navigation 6. Optimizing Images and Video 7. Sending Different Content to Different Devices 8. Creating a Web App Interface 9. Adding Web App Functionality 10. Testing and Updating your Mobile Site Pop quiz—Answers

Time for action—changing the layout of the menu on small screens


All of the changes we're going to make to our menu will be for phones in either landscape or portrait mode. The first one is to adjust the layout of the menu so that each link is nice and big, and easy to accurately tap on. To change the layout of the menu on small screens, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. First, let's find the media query for phones in landscape mode:

    /*smartphones in landscape mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
    }
    
  2. 2. To make the links line up one below the other with a large space between them, we will add the following code snippet:

    /* adjust menu layout */
    access {
    background: none;
    }
    access a {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px 0;
    background: #ccfeff;
    padding: 10px 0;
    }
    

Now let's have a look at what the preceding code snippet does.

What just happened?

We added some code within the media query for phones in landscape mode to alter the layout of the navigation menu. Let's look at the code and identify its...

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