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.
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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 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 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.
I wanted to ask what is the best practice to manage width of the radGrid.
For my application most users are running 1280 x 1024 so I would be happy to set my overall grid width to 1100. However, depending on the form in use, I sometimes have horizantal scroll bars. To solve this, I have been playing with the width of the grid, and also I have played with setting the itemstyle-width for one or two columns. Sometimes I accidentally get it right, and sometimes it is not quite right.
What is the best way to manage this?
Do I set the grid, and then all columns, or just the grid, or just the columns? I guess there is a best practice, so just wondering how you handle it,
thanks
PS. I have posted this on the Telerik forums, I know, of course, that it it not considered acceptable to paste the internet with the same post, but I do want to use stackoverflow, and hope that I am playing by the rules if I post directly on Telerik also.
Mark Breen
Mark Breen
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I set the width on the RadGrid to 99% in the definition, and then if I need to constrain the width, I set the Width explicitly on the RadGrid, or a parent HTML element. You may want to set a percentage instead of an explicit with as another option too. Do you need to adjust the size dependent on the resolution?
Setting the columns helps if you want a specific column of a specific width; as you probably know, table columns can change widths as determined by the browser, and setting the explicit width helps avoiding crunching data that you want to be of a specific width.
HTH.
I also set the width of the RadGrid to 99%, but the width of the MasterTableView to 100%.
Then I explicitly set the width of each column, so the same type of data is consistently shown on all my grids. (i.e.: All phone number columns are same width. All Date columns are same width, etc.)
Most of my grids show a lot of data, so I always use the horizontal scroll.
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.