This is about displaying a simple HTML page in iPhone’s browser, with rotation.
Setup: two identical tables but one of them has a (CSS) width of 69% while the other is at 100%.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable = yes" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<title>Test</title>
<style>
table
{
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th
{
font-weight: normal;
border: 1px solid red;
}
td
{
border: 1px solid green;
}
#t1
{
width: 69%;
}
#t2
{
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table id="t1">
<tr><th colspan="2">TH COLSPAN 2</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">TD COLSPAN 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>CELL 1</td><td>CELL 2</td></tr>
</table>
<hr />
<table id="t2">
<tr><th colspan="2">TH COLSPAN 2</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">TD COLSPAN 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>CELL 1</td><td>CELL 2</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Behaviour: although the two tables are displayed with the same font size in the default orientation (portrait), when rotating the device the full width table displays TDs/THs having a COLSPAN=2 in a bigger font size (screenshots are taken from iPhone):
This seems to be a bug in Safari but, nonetheless, I have to get around it.
Any idea about a decent workaround?
Thanks.
This is because sometimes Safari webview Zooms text automatically when it thinks its a good idea.
To disable this behavior add this to your body CSS Style:
-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;