For a printable layout I want to display a dynamic list (coming from an array) that should 'flow' through 4 columns of different heights, to look like this:
The blue elements are the four columns with the list (ul) inside.
The heights of the blue columns are fixed.
How can I achieve this with CSS? I looked at multicolumns in css but there the columns have to be the same height so that's not working I guess.
What's the best way to do this? It's fine if it only works in current web browsers.
I checked out 'flexbox' as well as 'css-grid' and even though it may be achievable I resign from doing it.
Instead I took another way and changed the initial array in the way I can comfortably place it in the different (now not connected) DIVs.
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I'm currently having a problem trying to set to the left every sublist of the navigation bar so that it aligns correctly bellow every sublist if there is more than 6 columns, the problem happens from the 7th list. I'm using bootstrap and every sublist have a size of 2 (so from the 7th as it passes the 12 column size it moves down, as expected)
What I'm getting a result is
And the expected result is
Piece of code used per list:
<div class="sub-navigation-section col-md-2">Ul and li inside</div>
The CSS that is attempting to do the expected result is a Float:left;
Bootstrap uses a 12 column grid system so you won't be able to divide that up equally into 7 columns. You could do this by creating your own class that has a width of approx 14.285% (100/7) and the same properties as the bootstrap col-* classes (float left etc)... but remember you'll need to cater for different viewports etc
If you wont use javascript, you can alternatively use CSS3´s column-gap and column-width like in this example:
https://www.bootply.com/118335
It floats the boxes like waterfall layout. Hope this helps you.
So here is an issue:
Web sites features 4 columns with descriptions, each inside the <p> element.
The problem: since text size differs by column, some columns are shorter than the others and when using a mobile phone or a tablet, they appear like this:
http://imgur.com/DZ7YKnz
How would one solve such issue? At first I have tried the min-height attribute but since there are so many resolutions, and sometimes I split into 4 instead of 2 columns per row, depending on device, setting min height for each resolution is a pain.
Is there any other way to do that?
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A solution could be using some javacript to equal the height of all columns; there are a lot of libraries like http://brm.io/jquery-match-height/
A suggestion: use pure-u-md-1-2 pure-u-lg-1-4 to show items 2 by 2 at lower resolutions
I recently found Foundation5 has Block Grid which has rarely found use case online anywhere to demostrate the importance of using it... or is it even a great function to have? Because I am currently using Bootstrap3 and found it does not have Block Grid. So I wonder if its really a big feature one should watch out for.
Maybe some critical user case that will be so much better to use Block Grid other than Column based Grid.
Thanks!
There are several differences between the block grid and regular column grid..
The block grid is always evenly spaced and distributed
The block grid requires less markup
The block grid doesn't have inner padding
Take a look at this demo: http://codeply.com/go/XiyFxtMcXT, and you'll see the differences. Notice how the block-grid evenly wraps the items when the items exceed one row.
Block grids give you a way to evenly split contents of a list within the grid. If you wanted to create a row of five images or paragraphs that need to stay evenly spaced no matter the screen size, the block grid is for you.
You could just as easily use a percentage based grid system to achieve the same result.
I think the benefit of the 'block grid' is:
Items are displayed in a 'ul' which will group them together (good, for accessibility).
It's quicker to add one style to a 'ul' that will automatically make each 'li' a 'column' than it is to add "col-x" to each 'li' manually
They've already built it so you don't need to.
I've got a page of products, and some of them might have extra rows. Regardless of that, my goal is to have every product display across the page, left to right, top to bottom.
See this example: http://jsbin.com/lijisa
If you modify the JSON data so that each product has two numbers in the variations array, everything lines up perfectly.
How can I get all the columns to be a standard height, without actually setting a hard height value?
What you are looking for is known as a "masonry layout" there are a few libraries that will allow you to do such a thing
Salvattore
http://salvattore.com/
Masonry
http://masonry.desandro.com/
I also found this achieving the same effect using column-width
http://www.bootply.com/118335
Use the hidden/visible helper classes combined with clearfix, to reset your rows only on appropriate devices, like so:
Example: http://www.bootply.com/YpH56xyzDB
The hidden/visible aspect lets you clearfix between specific columns only when on the right device.
Is there a way to create a dynamic CSS for 2 columns? What I mean is, there are 2 columns in my webpage, the left and right column. It is similar to Facebook, where the profile picture is the left column and the right column is where your feeds are located. When a link is selected from the left column, without refreshing the page, the right column will display the page automatically. The left column is where my links are located and it is fixed. The only change factor is my right column. How can I create and apply the CSS?
You don't need a CSS template in order to use columns. All you need to do is set your column widths to percentages instead of pixels. If you're using a three column grid, with one div taking one column and the other spanning two, then the percentage for the first column would be 33.3333333% (don't bother rounding up, the browser will take care of it) and the second div would be 66.6666666%.
Also, in order for your second div to refresh without loading another page, you'll have to use Ajax.
There are css3 columns but they are not supported by IE. What a surprise!
It sounds more like you just need a css layout framework. Search for css frameworks / templates.
I of course recommend simpl.css.
The page is ugly at the moment but will be updated soon.