A SharePoint site that is accessible on devices of varied screen sizes without any compromise in functionality or
performance can be achieved by SharePoint 2013 responsive design. SharePoint responsive site makes
it easy to be accessed on any device like Desktop, Laptop, Smartphone, and Tablet on any browser. Responsive design
will take care of what content should be displayed and in what format across different screen resolutions.
SharePoint business on the fly, will have its real utility when it is made accessible at any time, in any browser, on
any device. Today people are more inclined to use Laptop, Mobile or Tab rather than the traditional means of
desktop, and so SharePoint 2013 responsive design can make your website device-agnostic.
What defines SharePoint 2013 responsive design?
- Easy site navigation on any device
- Easy content readability on any device
- Device specific rendering of images/videos
Based on business needs, we can choose to have:
- Entire SharePoint site to be responsive
- Custom page to be responsive excluding the SharePoint default pages
- Only the SharePoint site landing page to be responsive
SharePoint 2013 responsive design should work well in the basic standard display resolution width, which
are:
- 1200×1900 (for Desktop/Laptop, portrait orientation)
- 768×1366 (for Tablet, portrait orientation)
- 480×800 (Smartphone, portrait orientation)
SharePoint 2013 Consultants agree that, SharePoint responsive design does not demand any
additional infrastructure cost. SharePoint responsive design can be achieved by implementing CSS styling and JQuery
that match the screen resolution of the device it is accessed from. For this, the set of styles is applied to the
content which is displayed in the given space.
Most dependable means of implementing responsive design in SharePoint is by using PnP Responsive UI, which is an open
source framework provided by Microsoft. This solution consists of a CSS file with media query and a JavaScript file
which takes care of applying CSS definition. These files can be customized too. PnP Responsive UI can be added to
your site by executing a single line of PowerShell script and does not require any additional pre-requisites.
In case, we want to implement the SharePoint 2013 responsive design of a particular custom
page, we can write custom CSS using media query too. We can also make use of certain 3rd party tools such as
Bootstrap etc.
SharePoint 2016 has in-built responsive design feature whereas for SharePoint 2013, one can achieve it by
implementing custom responsiveness design or by availing readily available responsive design frameworks. For more
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