Two (2) Column Blog Layout in HubSpot - css

Question

I'm doing my best to learn Hubspot's HubL language and CSS but am stuck on creating a 2 column format for my blog (they only provide a 1 column format). I inserted their Blog Content module, then edited the "Listing Template" code to be more to my liking, as follows. In the blog settings page I set the number of posts per "listing page" to 10 but would like to make it wrap at 5.
I also applied this inline styling so that the first column takes up half the space, which is good, but can't figure out how to tell it to wrap posts 6-10 to another column. I am reading everything I can about how I can get this to work but nothing applies directly to my problem.
max-width: 50%; height: auto;
Caveat - I can edit the below and I can apply CSS styling but that's the extent of my knowledge. If I have to do something in Javascript, I can copy-paste into a file that applies to the site but that's about it.
<div class="blog-section">
<div class="blog-listing-wrapper cell-wrapper">
<div class="blog-section">
<div class="blog-listing-wrapper cell-wrapper">
{# simple_list_page indicates the "blog/all" page, which is a list of links to every blog post #}
<div class="post-listing{% if simple_list_page %}-simple{% endif %}">
{% if blog_author %}
<div class="hs-author-profile">
<h2 class="hs-author-name">{{ blog_author.display_name }}</h2>
{% if blog_author.avatar %} <div class="hs-author-avatar"> <img src="{{ blog_author.avatar }}" alt="{{ blog_author.display_name }}"> </div> {% endif %}
<div class="hs-author-bio">{{ blog_author.bio }}</div>
{% if blog_author.has_social_profiles %}
<div class="hs-author-social-section">
<span class="hs-author-social-label">Find me on:</span>
<div class="hs-author-social-links">
{% if blog_author.facebook %}
{% endif %}
{% if blog_author.linkedin %}
{% endif %}
{% if blog_author.twitter %}
{% endif %}
{% if blog_author.google_plus %}
{% endif %}
</div>
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
<h3 class="hs-author-listing-header">Recent Posts</h3>
{% endif %}
{% for content in contents %}
<div class="post-item">
{% if not simple_list_page %}
{% if topic %}<h3>Posts about {{ page_meta.html_title|replace(' | ', '') }}</h3>{% endif %}
{% if content.topic_list %}
<p id="hubspot-topic_data"> >
{% for topic in content.topic_list %}
<a class="topic-link" href="{{ group.absolute_url }}/topic/{{ topic.slug }}">{{ topic.name }}</a>{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</p>
{% endif %}
{{ content.publish_date_localized }}
<div class="post-header">
<h2>{{ content.name }}</h2>
</div>
<div class="post-body clearfix">
<!--post summary-->
{% if content.post_list_summary_featured_image %}
<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper">
<a href="{{content.absolute_url}}" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link">
<img src="{{ content.post_list_summary_featured_image }}" class="hs-featured-image">
</a>
</div>
{% endif %}
{{ content.post_list_content|safe }}
{% if content_group.show_summary_in_listing %}
<a class="more-link" href="{{ content.absolute_url }}">Read More</a>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% else %}
<h2 class="post-listing-simple">{{ content.name }}</h2>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% if not simple_list_page %}
<div class="blog-pagination">
{% if last_page_num %}
<a class="previous-posts-link" href="{{ blog_page_link(last_page_num) }}">Previous</a>
{% endif %}
<a class="all-posts-link" href="{{ group.absolute_url }}/all">All posts</a>
{% if next_page_num %}
<a class="next-posts-link" href="{{ blog_page_link(next_page_num) }}">Next</a>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

You could reverse the loop and use modulus to split the posts into 2 columns
change your opening loop to:
<div class="span5">{% for content in contents|reverse %}
and then change the closing of the loop to:
{% if loop.index % 5 == 0 %}
</div><div class="span5">
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div> <!-- close the span5 we opened -->
</div> <!-- close the parent loop container -->