Responsive site is zoomed in when flipping between Portrait and Landscape on iPad/iPhone

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zarinf picture zarinf · Jun 23, 2012 · Viewed 49.4k times · Source

I've built a responsive site using Twitter Bootstrap here: http://zarin.me/cce/

The responsive design works great on iPad and iPhone, however when I flip the device from portrait to landscape, the site is zoomed in instead of adapting to the screen (pinching the screen works).

What am I missing? Is this a viewport issue? Here's the only viewport code I have in my :

<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport">

Thanks in advance!

Answer

justinavery picture justinavery · Jun 25, 2012

You also want to add the maximum scale

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

UPDATED I agree with some of the comments, the declaration should not limit the scaling by the user as this is bad practice. The below is a better approach and I believe that the zooming bug has long since been fixed by Apple.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

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