How can I "disable" zoom on a mobile web page?

Html Problem Overview

I am creating a mobile web page that is basically a big form with several text inputs.

However (at least on my Android cellphone), every time I click on some input the whole page zooms there, obscuring the rest of the page. Is there some HTML or CSS command to disable this kind of zoom on moble web pages?

Html Solutions

Solution 1 - Html

This should be everything you need:

<meta name="viewport" 
      content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0">

Solution 2 - Html

For those of you late to the party, kgutteridge's answer doesn't work for me and Benny Neugebauer's answer includes target-densitydpi (a feature that is being deprecated).

This however does work for me:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

Solution 3 - Html

There are a number of approaches here- and though the position is that typically users should not be restricted when it comes to zooming for accessibility purposes, there may be incidences where is it required:

Render the page at the width of the device, dont scale:

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

Prevent scaling- and prevent the user from being able to zoom:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

Removing all zooming, all scaling

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi" />

Solution 4 - Html

Mobile browsers (most of them) require font-size in inputs to be 16px.

And since there is still no solution for initial issue, here's a pure CSS solution.

input[type="text"],
input[type="number"],
input[type="email"],
input[type="tel"],
input[type="password"] {
  font-size: 16px;
}

solves the issue. So you don't need to disable zoom and loose accessibility features of you site.

If your base font-size is not 16px or not 16px on mobiles, you can use media queries.

@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
  input[type="text"],
  input[type="number"],
  input[type="email"],
  input[type="tel"],
  input[type="password"] {
    font-size: 16px;
  }
}

Solution 5 - Html

You can use:

<head>
  <meta name="viewport" content="target-densitydpi=device-dpi, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
  ...
</head>

But please note that with Android 4.4 the property target-densitydpi is no longer supported. So for Android 4.4 and later the following is suggested as best practice:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />

Solution 6 - Html

Seems like just adding meta tags to index.html doesn't prevent page from zooming. Adding below style will do the magic.

:root {
  touch-action: pan-x pan-y;
  height: 100% 
}

EDIT: Demo: https://no-mobile-zoom.stackblitz.io

Solution 7 - Html

please try adding this meta-tag and style

<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" name="viewport"/>


<style>
body{
        touch-action: manipulation;
    }
</style>

Solution 8 - Html

Possible Solution for Web Apps: While zooming can not be disabled in iOS Safari anymore, it will be disabled when opening the site from a home screen shortcut.

Add these meta tags to declare your App as "Web App capable":

    <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" >
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" >

However only use this feature if your app is self sustaining, as the forward/backward buttons and URL bar as well as the sharing options are disabled. (You can still swipe left and right though) This approach however enables quite the app like ux. The fullscreen browser only starts when the site is loaded from the homescreen. ~~I also only got it to work after I included an apple-touch-icon-180x180.png in my root folder.~~

As a bonus, you probably also want to include a variant of this as well:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent">

Solution 9 - Html

You can accomplish the task by simply adding the following 'meta' element into your 'head':

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no">

Adding all the attributes like 'width','initial-scale', 'maximum-width', 'maximum-scale' might not work. Therefore, just add the above element.

Solution 10 - Html

<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEventListener('touchmove', function (event) {
  if (event.scale !== 1) { event.preventDefault(); }
}, { passive: false });
</script>

Please Add the Script to Disable pinch, tap, focus Zoom

Solution 11 - Html

The solution using a meta-tag did not work for me (tested on Chrome win10 and safari IOS 14.3), and I also believe that the concerns regarding accessibility, as mentioned by Jack and others, should be honored.

My solution is to disable zooming only on elements that are damaged by the default zoom.

I did this by registering event listeners for zoom-gestures and using event.preventDefault() to suppress the browsers default zoom-behavior.

This needs to be done with several events (touch gestures, mouse wheel and keys). The following snippet is an example for the mouse wheel and pinch gestures on touchpads:

noteSheetCanvas.addEventListener("wheel", e => {
        // suppress browsers default zoom-behavior:
        e.preventDefault();

        // execution of my own custom zooming-behavior:
        if (e.deltaY > 0) {
            this._zoom(1);
        } else {
            this._zoom(-1);
        }
    });

How to detect touch gestures is described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11183333/1134856

I used this to keep the standard zooming behavior for most parts of my application and to define custom zooming-behavior on a canvas-element.

Solution 12 - Html

Using this post and a few others I managed to sort this out so that is compatible with Android and iPhone/iPad/iPod using the following code. This is for PHP, you can use the same concept for any other language with string searches.

<?php //Device specific headers
$iPod    = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPod");
$iPhone  = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPhone");
$iPad    = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPad");
$Android = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Android");
$webOS   = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"webOS");

if($iPhone || $iPod || $iPad){
    echo '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />';
} else {
    echo '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />';
}

Solution 13 - Html

This may help someone: on iOS, my problem was fixed by swapping <button>s for <div>s, along with the other things mentioned.

Solution 14 - Html

document.addEventListener('dblclick', (event) => {
    event.preventDefault()
}, { passive: false });

Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
Question	Martín Fixman	View Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - Html	kgutteridge	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 2 - Html	Luke Keller	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 3 - Html	SW4	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 4 - Html	Azamat Rasulov	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 5 - Html	Benny Neugebauer	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 6 - Html	Api	View Answer on Stackoverflow
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