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Popups are great to capture attention and present important content on desktop and tablet sites, but on the smartphone view, they can get in the way.

Various solutions to hide the popup from the mobile view have been shared. For example, Conditional CSS, and Temporary Solution to Hide Popup on Mobile Devices, and Create a Simple Responsive Popup Window with jQuery.

I recently solved my problem with this dilemma by adjusting the css on the popup.css file by adding a media call for a mobile view, and changing the selectors to hide or revise those of the divs in the main css. Though I was not able to simply wrap the code for the popup in a display:none css div, I could isolate my display:none div to wrap only the image, and without the 1. Overlay, 2. Popup and 3. Image css definitions showing on the mobile view, it is now clean and user-friendly.

"During an often-contentious hearing Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took on the Obama administration for what has become his latest signature issue: internet oversight.

"The Obama administration is due to relinquish U.S. control Oct. 1 over a private-sector, nonprofit organization that administers internet domain names and designations. Cruz warned that the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers will not on its own honor U.S. protections of free speech, and he is leading an effort to delay or stop the transfer..."

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"On October 1st, the US Government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration will hand over control of the internet's domain name system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a 'multi-stakeholder' nonprofit organization. While the change will be invisible to the billions of internet users out there, starting in October, the US government will no longer control what some call the internet's 'phone book.'"

... "Again, regular users won't notice a difference in their internet come October, but the switch isn't without controversy."; More about the internet transfer