Hello! Super new user here so apologies if this is a silly question. I'm just struggling to find an answer and need some help. I want to remove this tag out of the site I'm working on. It appears in the head tags at the top of my sites.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">

I deleted it manually by opening the files in notepad and the site looks just how I want it. I was curious if there's a setting to remove it within Site Designer.

Thanks!

Sorry. Working frameworkless, desktop down.

That tag tells the browsers and search engines that the website is designed to be responsive, and allows the browsers to make necessary adjustments

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> you cannot change this whilst using site designer, and it cannot be edited until ":Exported to a folder ready for FTP, you can then manually edit that line, and put your own preferred attributes (I assume you know the attributes you wish the browsers to apply)BE AWARE (if you are not already) the the attribute "user-scalable=no" can cause accessibility issues to users with visual impairments such as low vision. WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)requires a minimum of 2× scaling; however, the best practice is to enable a 5× zoom.
You have to remember also that if ever you do updates to your site, that once you EXPORT it again, it will overwrite the new "Meta Tag" you created, and replace it with the safe and widely used default statement, which will mean you have to edit that line again BEFORE exporting, or delete it from the exported pages, after exporting so that those lines on those pages are not overwritten.

ADDITIONALLY
you are going to need to make sure that your layout and design AT ALL WIDTHS, DOES NOT HAVE HORIZONTAL SCROLLING (especially for smaller width devices.) which apparently it does already, because you have simply deleted it after exporting (notepad) so it maybe that you will manage to get away with not having one at all, but this is not really recommended.

I deleted it manually by opening the files in notepad and the site looks just how I want it. I was curious if there's a setting to remove it within Site Designer.

Did you check it out at ALL Device widths?,

Hmmm. I think that answers my question. Site Designer doesn't have the option to edit that tag within the program. As I feared I'll have to edit that manually every time I export.

I did load up it up on 2 different cell phones and it looks great with the tag stripped out. Users can pinch and zoom to view the page as they like so it's actually kinda perfect. With the tag inside the site looks pretty bad on mobile devices. I'm sure there's something I'm doing wrong with regards to break points. I admit I'm unfamiliar with them and am coming to terms with it (trying to read up and watch videos).

For now I think what will work best for me is to strip the tag out manually. I do appreciate your help! Thanks!

Breakpoints within Site Designer are added whenever your layout starts to break. The secret is that slowly move the slider down, keeping an eys
e on your layout, once it breakes (doesn't look good), then ask yourself a question "CAN I CHANGE MY LAYOUT (EVEN A SMALL CHANGE) to make it look good at this point, and still look good further back.

If the answer is YES, then make that small change. If the answer is no, then add a breakpoint, and make any adjustment to the layout as necessary. once it looks good again, repeat the process moving the slide slowly down, until you reach narrow device viewport widths.

Site Designer back-end stuff, does all the necessary CSS etc to make those changes, in the background, creating the CSS folder upon export.

One other point to consider, is HOW IMPORTANT is it that your website can be found by people who Don't KNOW it's existence, and therefore will do a search for something that then the search engines can display on their results pages. as you are probably aware, nowadays "FIRST TIME (estimates vary but it's commonly accepted that it is around 64% of all first time visitors to a website use smaller width devices (Mobiles/tablets),and then perhaps come back later on desktop or larger device widths.

Search engines look at websites MOBILE FIRST to start their indexing, (users having to scroll or zoom a page (however that is achieved,) isn't really a good user visual experience, and could possibly result in low ranking positions on their search results pages, which makes it difficult for users to even start to see your website, if search engine results are not that important, then scrolling and or zooming on mobile (smaller width devices) isn't that much of an issue anyway.

That's handy to know. Ultimately Site Designer works brilliantly for what I need it for. Anything it can't handle, I can just modify in notepad. I appreciate your help.