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CSS-only masonry layout
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I have been trying to recreate the below picture in css but have been having trouble implementing it with both grids and flexboxes.
I want each of the boxes to simpy fit its content, and the remaining empty boxes to fill the space of the column.
When I try with grids I can easily create three columns with a fixed even gap inbetween columns and rows however I get stuck on how to make the individual boxes dynamic in size depending on its content.
When I try with flex boxes, I can create teh individual boxes of flexible size but it is very hard to limit the boxes to three columns of even size, but let the columns each have multiple elements.
I have thought about simply creating three different flex boxes but wanted to avoid a hardcoded solution, but maybe for this case this is the best solution?
Would I use grids or flexboxes for this kind of design?
Any insight on how to approach such a design would be very helpful thanks.
What you could do is to create 3 different classes for each column in the grid:
Each class should have align-self: flex-start as well as display: grid; in order to create space between different rows in the column. Here's the full code:
.base-layout {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
grid-column-gap: 2rem;
}
.col-1 {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 2rem;
grid-column: 1 / span 1;
}
.col-2 {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 2rem;
grid-column: 2 / span 1;
align-self: flex-start;
}
.col-3 {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 2rem;
grid-column: 3 / span 1;
align-self: flex-start;
}
.single-content {
background-color: pink;
padding: 2rem;
}
here's an Imagesample Image
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I have container like this :
At the moment there is an empty case after element 5. So I would like to center the elements of the second line :
For the code i've already done :
.country-grid
display: grid
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill,minmax(320px, 1fr))
This depends on the exact use case and how many grid items you are expecting. If you know you are always going to have 5 items, you could just set a specific number of columns and offset the 4th item like so:
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr);
}
.grid-item {
grid-column: span 2;
}
.grid-item:nth-child(4) {
grid-column: 2 / span 2;
}
If the layout could have any number of items and you are looking at a more fluid approach when it comes to wrapping, then I'd suggest using flex for this as it's a lot simpler for setting up alignment like this:
.flex {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: center;
}
.flex-item {
width: calc(100% / 3);
min-width: 320px;
}
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
I am attempting to build a layout in which I have a parent flexbox div with individual sections within it, the trouble I'm running into is trying to get two of the section elements to stack in a column when the entire layout is as a row.
Currently, there are two sections that occupy the full height of the row, then I have two additional sections which should ideally only be the height of their shorter content, and stack on each other in a single column::
Both the sections I'm trying to stack have these CSS parameters in my attempt to fix this::
flex-basis: 40%;
align-self: flex-start;
And the parent div flex has::
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: flex-start;
Any ideas as to how this might be achieved would be hugely appreciated, thanks!
You are going for a more complex layout than what one level of flexbox can do. A couple of options come to mind:
You can give the third cell in that row display: flex; flex-direction:column and then nest the smaller divs inside it.
Or, you can use grid instead of flex. Then you can arrange it three columns, but set certain cells to span multiple columns or rows as you wish. For example:
.wrapper {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: max-content 1fr 1fr;
}
.stars {
grid-column: span 3;
}
.left, .middle {
grid-row: span 2;
}
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv