I made a lot of responsive websites, but I've never encountered this problem. I made a responsive portfolio website and if I resize my desktop browser it scales fine. It uses bootstrap for the grid. And some scroll effect libraries but they don't seem to affect the scaling because I tried it with javascript off. But when I open it on a real smartphone it just doesn't scale down, it views it in a zoomed out desktop view. Things i've tried:
Adding all kinds of viewport "meta tags" like:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Checking my styles, if there is something forcing the body width to be wider
- Turning off javascript
Nothing seems to work, if someone can look in to it and see what i've been missing that would be great!
It scales fine in resized desktop browsers.