What they do

Media queries allow for custom CSS based on a number of conditions—ratios, widths, display type, etc—but usually focuses around min-width and max-width.

• Modify the width of column in our grid
• Stack elements instead of float wherever necessary
• Resize headings and text to be more appropriate for devices

Use media queries responsibly and only as a start to your mobile audiences. For larger projects, do consider dedicated code bases and not layers of media queries.

Supported devices

Bootstrap supports a handful of media queries in a single file to help make your projects more appropriate on different devices and screen resolutions. Here's what's included:

Requires meta tag

To ensure devices display responsive pages properly, include the viewport meta tag.

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

Bootstrap doesn't automatically include these media queries, but understanding and adding them is very easy and requires minimal setup. You have a few options for including the responsive features of Bootstrap:

1. Use the compiled responsive version, bootstrap-responsive.css
2. Add @import "responsive.less" and recompile Bootstrap
3. Modify and recompile responsive.less as a separate file

Why not just include it? Truth be told, not everything needs to be responsive. Instead of encouraging developers to remove this feature, we figure it best to enable it.

  /* Landscape phones and down */
  @media (max-width: 480px) { ... }

  /* Landscape phone to portrait tablet */
  @media (max-width: 767px) { ... }

  /* Portrait tablet to landscape and desktop */
  @media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 979px) { ... }

  /* Large desktop */
  @media (min-width: 1200px) { ... }

What are they

For faster mobile-friendly development, use these basic utility classes for showing and hiding content by device.

When to use

Use on a limited basis and avoid creating entirely different versions of the same site. Instead, use them to complement each device's presentation.

For example, you might show a <select> element for nav on mobile layouts, but not on tablets or desktops.

Support classes

Shown here is a table of the classes we support and their effect on a given media query layout (labeled by device). They can be found in responsive.less.