Summary
In this chapter, we’ve covered everything you are likely to need when using media queries for a responsive design. You now understand how to change a layout based on the characteristics of the environment your web pages find themselves in.
We learned what media queries are, why we need them, and how to include them in our CSS files in all manner of ways. We’ve also learned how to use the meta viewport tag to make browsers render pages in the manner we’d like.
As I’ll no doubt repeat in later chapters, don’t get bogged down with or intimidated by the syntax. Just get an understanding of the underlying principles and you can look up the syntax anytime; after all, that’s what all developers do! As long as you understand what you can accomplish with media queries, our work here is largely done.
While only experimental as I write this, we have also considered container queries and some of the exciting abilities they provide...