Are there any guidelines for how wide a page should generally be set to when designing layouts, so that you 1) have enough room to actually place objects, and repeating groups with many columns, but 2) will still work on a lower resolution display or if someone is zoomed in? All my pages are about …

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@lmoreau I like the site linked by jici as it gives a good explanation. I also think, page width and breakpoints are more of a personally issue, rather than a universal “best practice” as you can find by comparing some major sites and their breakpoints ( they are usually different ). I think ensur…

For mobile devices I do (min width 396) max width (414) It doesn’t help for old iPhone but every other phone seem to be ok with it , even androids

How wide should a page typically be set to for maximum compatibility?

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Jici December 5, 2019, 2:41pm 2

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