Disabling Responsiveness in Bootstrap Page

Bootstrap is popular for responsive web designing. By default, Bootstrap automatically adjusts your web pages for various screen sizes. If you want to disable this feature or want to show non responsive page, follow below steps to disable page responsiveness.

Steps to disable page responsiveness

  • Remove the viewport tag from page which is responsible to disables the zooming aspect of sites in mobile devices.
  • Override the width on the .container for each grid tier with a single width for example width: 970px make sure that this comes after the default Bootstrap CSS.
  • Remove all navbar collapsing and expanding behavior.
  • For grid layouts, use .col-xs-* classes in place of medium/large ones.

Bootstrap template with responsiveness disabled

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head> <!-- www.techstrikers.com -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Non-responsive Template for Bootstrap</title>
    <!-- Bootstrap -->  
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"   
rel="stylesheet">  
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>   
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="page-header">
        <h1>Non-responsive Bootstrap</h1>
        <p class="lead">Bootstrap is popular for responsive web designing. By default, 
		Bootstrap automatically adjusts your web pages for various screen sizes. 
		If you want to disable this feature or want to show non responsive page, 
		follow below steps to disable page responsiveness.</p>
      </div>

      <h3>What changes</h3>
      <ul>
<li>Remove the viewport tag from page which is responsible to disables the zooming 
aspect of sites in mobile devices.</li>
<li>Override the width on the <code>.container</code> 
for each grid tier with a single width 
for example <code>width: 970px</code> make sure that this 
comes after the default Bootstrap CSS.</li>
<li>Remove all navbar collapsing and expanding behavior.</li>
<li>For grid layouts, use .col-xs-* classes in place of medium/large ones. </li>
</ul>
</div>
  </body>
</html>
See Live Example