Started learning Twitter Bootstrap a couple days ago and in form-design they use form-group but from some examples I have seen for example each label and its text box is inside one form-group and from some other examples I have seen they put multiple labels and their text boxes in one form-group.
So my question is what makes them know and decide which way to wrap in form-group?
Wrap labels and controls in .form-group for optimum spacing. - Bootstrap Documentation
It just adds a bottom margin to help space out your controls. I find that in most cases you would want to use them. The only time I can think of that you might consider not using them is if the form you're styling requires a lot of custom positioning or spacing.
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We are on 6.5.3. Like in CSS/bootstrap, there is a property to add the spacing between grid columns. I would like to know if there is any way to achieve this in AEM Grid? We need to add some gaps to ensure content doesn't stick together when content is placed inside the column grids. Modifying the grid.less is an option that we are thinking of as last resort, but we would like to check if there is a declarative way from the AEM grid, for example specifying the spacing in some property.
There is no property for padding/margin in AEM grids by default, this is the reason we have grid.less file in place OOTB. But,you can edit and add a property in your templates for that.
Although, this is not the best approach
If you want to add default spacing in all the grids, you have to do it in grid.less.
This would be even worse, as these changes would be global
A Better Approach
I would suggest to create a spacer component instead of adding a default padding in all grids. That way, when you don't want padding in your grids you wouldn't get stuck again.
Content Authors can just add a spacer component(or multiple) in between different components depending upon the size of padding/margin you need.
Customizing AEM Grid
I am creating a form using OpenUI5 and I noticed that when I am using the ResponsiveGridLayout layout, the form gets some padding (blue area around the input fields). Please see result here:
http://plnkr.co/edit/G4NrKPMGdN4DACXZgZOg?p=preview
If I am using the GridLayout layout, the padding is as expected:
http://plnkr.co/edit/Yp6Ul7gLDf0t88vMWrWD?p=preview
Any idea how I can get a form with very a small padding (like in GridLayout example), but in the same time I want to be able to use the 12-column grid system so I can set the size on my input fields?
Ideally, the views need to be XML and to use OpenUI5 classes/controls if possible.
You could just swap the responsible style classes using .addStyleClass() and .removeStyleClass().
Not sure if it works, but thats the easiest possible fix I can think of that might be worth a try.
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.
Is it possible to calculate if an element is at the start of a new line within a <p>? For example take a look at this screenshot:
You'll see that the Twitter button has a slight margin to it. This is fine when it's following a word, but I was wondering if there was a hidden CSS gem that'd allow me to say "if you're the first 'thing' on a line then lose your margin-left".
Edit: The answer was p button:first-child or p > button, but neither work. See the comments.
You might want to set the margin to 0 all the time and then make sure the button always has a space before it. (Edit: won't work either, since a space is not enough. Again, see the comments.)
It is possible to do this calculation programmatically using JavaScript, but I'm not aware of any CSS tricks that will do it for you.
The basic JavaScript algorithm for doing this is to append an invisible node to your document with the same text styling as your paragraphs of text. Then you gradually add text to it, checking its width after each addition to see where the linebreaks are. Then when you've worked out what the width of the final line is, you check to see if that width would put the twitter button on the next line by itself, and update the CSS styles appropriately to remove the margin. This needs to be done for each <p> on the page that includes a twitter button.
It's not the most straightforward approach (in fact, Mr. Lister's solution is far simpler and produces a comparable effect as long as the margin is not more than a few pixels wide), but it's not quite as bad as it sounds, either.
Here's an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/fBUnW/6/
I am using Telerik's Radgrid for a website. Often the grid columns exceed the available width, and extend outside the main content area (fixed width).
So what are my options for presenting very wide grids. horizontal scroll bars just look ugly on my site
Your choices are a combination of the following:
Smaller fonts
Consolidate some cells to have more than one row (e.g. if you have a "start date" and "end date" put the start date on top and the end date on the bottom.
Widen the window
Make some cells appear conditionally (based on user-defined filters). Maybe the most frequently used cells appear normally and a checkbox unhides the less frequently used cells or groups of cells.
Allow horizontal scrolling
Make the window a fluid width
Popup data in a floating <div> via javascript instead of putting it in a column
Am I missing anything?
i am using telerik controls too, one thing i have learned after a lot of work with them is their CSS is usually good, but i also face your problem, and here is my advise.
what Keltex said.
always add a custom class to your Rad Grid where you do fix those nasty stuff.
don't use fixed width for Grid, instead use it on columns and make the grid Fluid, so does the page.
hope this helps.
I agree with devmania and making the grid fluid, I had a similar problem recently. So I made a few of my columns nowrap and left the rest to wrap. It doesn't look great on smaller screens but it's still usable because I've stopped things like date+time columns wrapping. However, once you start using it on a wider screen it looks great.
It all depends on how much of a scrollbar you have. Is it possible to strip out some of the columns and have that information in a popup/flyout somewhere?
Another option is to make which columns are shown user configurable, but you're not really addressing the problem, just making it the responsibility of the user to make it look nice.
If you can't get rid of the horizontal scrollbar you should at least try to put the more important columns first so that your users don't have to scroll to the right very often.