Last Updated on October 14, 2023 by Christopher G Mendla
If you are using Chrome, you can easily emulate a variety of mobile devices/resolutions.
Go to the page you want to emulate. Right click and choose “Inspect”
Using Chrome to emulate a mobile device
The Chrome browser (along with other browsers such as Firefox and Edge), provides a means to easily emulate a mobile device. This is extremely valuable when you are developing a site and need to check the rendering of your pages on various mobile platforms.Â
To get started, visit the page in your desktop browser. Then right click anywhere on the page and choose “Inspect”
The inspect tool will appear. Look for the mobile/table icon and click that.
You can adjust the settings including rotating the display with the control panel above your ‘mobile’ page.
Note that the inspect tool offers a wide variety of tools that you can use to analyze a web page. The mobile emulation capability is only a small part of the available toolset.