I've run into a problem of how I should code some columns of content.
Problem
This is what is being output for the state of large-4; three columns with different sized boxes inside.
But what happens when I have medium-6 and the responsive mode kicks in? I get this:
You might understand my dilemma here. I want the content to evenly distribute between the, now, two columns, and not ending up with a "row" and then having the green column under the purple, but rather the teal one under the purple and somehow evenly put its boxes, if possible, over two columns.
Since the boxes inside the columns are sorted by date, the order has to be as they are in the large-4 picture (i.e. first date at the top left, going down, moving to the next column to the right, starting from the top, and so on).
My tries to solve this
I thought that Foundation 6 with the flex grid could possibly help me out, but I have yet to find anything.
I also gave the thought and try of using CSS3 column, but the break my boxes in half and make it really hard to manipulate.
If my request isn't clear enough, please let me know and I'll try to be more specific.
Thanks in advance!
Related
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.
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.
What I wanted to do is that I had multiple tables and/or images of different heights and wanted them positioned on the page side by side, so that the tops of the objects were aligned.
I couldn't figure this out, it didn't matter whether I put these 'in-line' or in separate Boxes (Minipages) (that seemed to be aligned the way I wanted in the editor), in output Lyx always seemed to align these objects somehow around the center of their height and not the top.
Finally, (after several hours of googling and trying to figure this out) I have the answer, so I'm posting it below, because I hope someone like me will find it useful in the future.
The way I solved this is relatively easy.
For each image/table I created a Box (Minipage). In each Box I put, on the first line, Vertical Space (Insert -> Formatting -> Vertical Space) and set the size to 0 in. After the Vertical Space I inserted the graphic/table. This way, if you put several boxes next to each other (for example by setting their width to 25% page width, or whatever you desire), they will be aligned by the top in the output.
You can also do Ctrl+Space (to insert a 'protected space') and then Enter, which seems to work the exact same way.
Hope this helps.
I'm guessing this isn't possible, but here goes.
I have two tables, and I'm trying to get them to sit side-by-side so that they look like one table. The reason for this, instead of using one larger table, is that the data in the second table needs to be handled on a column basis, not row basis, for performance reasons like caching and AJAX-fetching data. So rather than have to reload the whole table for a single column, I decided to break the column out into a separate table, but have it visually seem like a single table.
I can't find a way to forcibly put the second table next to the first. I can float them, but when the first table is too wide, the second one breaks to the next line. Here's the kicker: the width of the first table is dynamic. So I can't just set a huge width to their container. Well, I could set a huge width, like 1000%, but then I have a huge ugly horizontal scroll bar.
So is there any way to tell the second table "Stay on that same line, no matter what! And line up right next to the previous element please!"
Put your two tables in another table with a single row and two cells. Not elegant or 'modern' but it will work.
If your table is one table, you should have sticked with one table.
You are trying to fix a data manipulation issue by using a different document structure.
Using a different class per column with the DOM navigation tools provided by library such as jquery, you should not have any problem accessing cells or columns you want to update.
I would not go the route you chose.
How about this:
<div>
<div class=lspacer>
<table1>
</table1>
</div>
<div class=rspacer>
<table2>
</table2>
</div>
</div>
Then, for lspacer, you can clear it left, and for rspacer, you can clear it right.
Also, you specify the width.
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.