Get affordable and hassle-free WordPress hosting plans with Cloudways β start your free trial today. We all know how to do responsive design, right? We use media queries. Sometimes we get inventive with flexbox or autoflowing grids. But the process feels like a compromise to me. Consider this simple hero banner and its mobile equivalent.
Sorry for the unsophisticated design. The meerkat and the text are all positioned and sized differently. The traditional way to pull this off is to have two layouts, selected by a media , sorry, container query. As a result, there are likely to be widths near the breakpoint where the layout looks either a little empty or a little congested. It turns out there is. We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container.
Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will. Now we can take those start and end points for the size and position of both the text and background and make them fluid.
The text size uses fluid typography in a way you are already familiar with. These expressions are a good example of how magic numbers are a bad thing. The upper and lower bounds passed to clamp are clear enough, but the expression in the middle comes from these simultaneous equations:.
In the first equation, we are saying that we want the expression to evaluate to px when 1cqi is equal to 12px. When the fixed unit is different, we must change the size of the variable units accordingly. This is solving these equations because, at a container width of px , 1cqi is the same as 0. Honestly, this is boring math to do every time, so I made a calculator you can use.
