What are good resolution values to use with media queries?

css, media-queries

Solution

See this article for a template '320 and Up' - by Andy Clarke, it's used by many developers and designers: http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/this_is_the_new_320_and_up

If you scroll down to the media queries section you'll see they use five CSS3 Media Query increments (480, 600, 768, 992 and 1382px). Typically I stick to just 4 (480, 600, 768, 1024).

To explain the ranges:

`min-width: 480px`: Will target mobile devices in landscape mode and up

`min-width: 600px`: Targets tablets in portrait mode and up

`min-width: 768px`: Targets tablets in landscape mode and up

`min-width: 1024px`: Targets the desktop view

And typically I will have my mobile portrait view CSS at the very beginning (hence the term "320 and up").

Problem

Recently I've been playing around with CSS Media Queries because it's a great way to make my website adapt to various screen sizes. I am planning to implement them into the live version. My question is: Are there any recommended resolution values at which the layout changes?

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