IONIC Card layout styling seems not centered and not equally spaced - css

Question

I am building IONIC app and made a card layout as below.
<ion-content padding>
<ion-card *ngFor="let book of booksData.books; let i=index">
<ion-row>
<ion-col col-3>
<ion-avatar item-start>
<img src="/../../img/authorImage.png">
</ion-avatar>
</ion-col>
<ion-col col-7>
<ion-card-header>
#{‌{i+1}}
</ion-card-header>
<ion-card-content>
<p>{‌{book.text}}</p>
<p>{‌{book.person}}</p>
</ion-card-content>
</ion-col>
<ion-col col-2>
<ion-row>
<ion-icon name="thumbs-up"></ion-icon>
</ion-row>
<ion-row>
<ion-icon name="thumbs-down"></ion-icon>
</ion-row>
</ion-col>
</ion-row>
</ion-card>
</ion-content>
The card is splitted into three columns (as expected), how ever I am facing the below issue
The thumbs up and thumbs down icon are displaying but not taking the full available height . instead they are taking a fraction area of the column only. How can I make sure that the two icons take half the width of the Row of that specific column.
Any inputs on how to fix this please.

Answer 1

Okay so this is how you can solve both your problems, here's the code for your page:
<ion-card *ngFor="let book of booksData.books; let i=index">
<ion-row>
<ion-col col-3>
<ion-avatar item-start>
<img src="./assets/img/authorImage.png">
</ion-avatar>
</ion-col>
<ion-col col-7>
<ion-card-header>
#{‌{i+1}}
</ion-card-header>
<ion-card-content>
<p>{‌{book.text}}</p>
<p>{‌{book.person}}</p>
</ion-card-content>
</ion-col>
<ion-col col-2>
<ion-icon name="thumbs-up"></ion-icon>
<ion-icon name="thumbs-down"></ion-icon>
</ion-col>
</ion-row>
</ion-card>
And this is the css for your page
.col[col-2] {
display: grid;
ion-icon {
display: flex;
font-size: 2em;
align-self: center;
justify-self: center;
}
}
Let's go through the code:
For the image you'll need to add the path relative to your index.html file, since an Ionic app is simply an SPA (Single Page App) so every page is served as it was part of your index.html. The same works for images rendered though javascript files and CSS.
For your thumbs up buttons you first need to remove the rows from the HTML, they doesn't need to be inside of a row.
Then you can manipulate it with CSS, apply a display: grid to your col element with the col-2 attribute, if you want you can change it to a class or ID and use something like <ion-col col-2 class="thumbs-col">...</ion-col> and change the CSS selector to .thumbs-col instead of .col[col-2].
The display grid is enough to separate into 2 equal rows, but if by any reason it desn't separate this way just add grid-auto-flow: row; to your col selector.
For the icon i added a code so it can center the icon both vertically and horizontally with flexbox. For the size since the icon is not an image, but an SVG, you'll need to manipulate it's size with font-size and not height/width. If you change to a button with an icon, for an example, then you can use height/width.
Hope this helps.