I understand the problem, as described and answered here.
I have quite a complicated layout with a sidebar navigation, a top navigation, a fluid-container and then page-title and page-body structure for each page. So just adding another container did not solve the problem as suggested in that answer.
Once I get into the page-body, all the rows are stretching 'outside' the parent page-body.
Notice I have added padding to the default container-fluid to 'pull' all the content in from each side of the page. Removing them does not fix it.
I've tried every change I can think of except removing the padding from the default row, because I'm pretty sure that is a no-no.
Anyone have any idea how to get those pesky form controls to stay 'inside' the page body?
There is two solution either give an additional class to row and manipulate its layout or don't use row use <div class="col-md-*" /> without parent .row class div as many times u want and use <div class="clearfix"> if you want to break forcefully to next row
EDIT:-
For example
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">div1</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div2</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div3</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">div4</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div5</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div6</div>
</div>
The same can be achieved without .row class
<div class="col-md-4">div1</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div2</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div3</div>
<div class="clearfix">div4</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div5</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div6</div>
<div class="col-md-4">div1</div>
I would like to re-order some div using only CSS if possible.
Here is the HTML sample I want to re-order:
<div class="block1">
Block1
</div>
<div class="block2">
<div class="subblock1">S-Block1</div>
<div class="subblock2">S-Block2</div>
<div class="subblock3">S-Block3</div>
</div>
And this is the graphical result I want:
S-Block1
S-Block2
Block1
S-Block3
I already tried playing with display: flex; and order: X but with no success. The main problem lays in the fact that I want to split the block2 before and after the block1. The flex display only allow me to change order of block of the same "level".
I would really like to have a solution that doesn't not use JavaScript to re-write the DOM (by taking subblock3 and putting it elsewhere to please my CSS) if possible.
It appears this is not possible and javascript is not an option for my problem.
Here is the sample code I used (jQuery needed).
$(".subblock2").prependTo(".form-wrapper");
$(".subblock1").prependTo(".form-wrapper");
I'm trying to adapt bootstrap's standard practices to speed up some of my development but have a quick question related to showing and hiding cols.
I have the following simple layout
<div class="row" id="contactGrid">
<div class="col-sm-2">Sidebar</div>
<div class="col-sm-10">Content</div>
</div>
When I use AngularJS to show/hide the Sidebar col I expect the Content col to stretch the entire width of the container but it doesn't it says at 'col-10'. Do I need to programmically change the class/width to col-sm-12 when I hide the sidebar?
Thanks for your help, I'm sure this is an easy one!
The element with the class col-sm-10 will always have 10/12 of the width of it's parent row. Therefore you need to update it on the fly, when your sidebar changes to hidden. As you already use AngularJS you might have a variable defining if your sidebar should be visible or not. This variable may also define your class conditionally for your content div.
<div class="row" id="contactGrid">
<div class="col-sm-2" ng-show="booleanVariable">Sidebar</div>
<div ng-class="{col-sm-10: booleanVariable, col-sm-12: !booleanVariable}">Content</div>
</div>
Daniel,
Your answer is the reason I'm trying to learn the BS/NG style of UI. It's just knowling where the shortcuts begin and end. To polish it off I used a ternary expression in the ng-class. showFilterSidebar is my hide/show variable. Thanks Again!
<div ng-class="showFilterSidebar ? 'col-sm-10' : 'col-sm-12'">
Yes you need to change class to col-sm-12 and hide for col-sm-2 to avoid problems with floatin .
I have started work on a new project and decided to give Foundation 5 a bash to see what it's like. The first thing I noticed in the documentation when creating forms with horizontal fields is they use a large number of divs for styling. So I tried an example below (second example I tried it without divs):
<!-- Example with extra divs -->
<div class="row">
<div class="large-2 columns">
<label>Contact</label>
</div>
<div class="large-6 columns left">
<select></select>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Example without extra divs -->
<div class="row">
<label class="large-2 columns">Contact</label>
<select class="large-6 columns left"></select>
</div>
These both achieve the same thing with slightly different styling. I was wondering if anyone could explain why I would use the first one (follows foundation documentation) and not the other ... with less html! I am guessing it has something to do with how foundation is used and I am just not up to speed with it enough yet.
Thanks
Having <label> in <div> will give you lot of flexibility in styling. Defining a class for <label> will restrict your styling options. For a <div> you can define height, background color, border, width, background image, gradient fill, margins, padding, and lot more. Whereas giving <label> a class name would not let you do those styling. You could try it.
Basically, a <div> works as a box or container holding some content element in it, and that gives you lot of power and flexibility in styling. Whereas defining classes for content element doesn't give you that flexibility and power.
I read about semantic HTML online...
Semantic HTML means using HTML tags for their implied meaning, rather than just using (meaningless) div and span tags for absolutely everything.
If you use <h1> instead of <div class="header">, and <h2> instead of , et cetera, Google and other search engines will interpret your headers as being important titles in your page. This way, when people search on the words in your headers and sub-headers, your page will be considered more relevant (and rank higher). Plus, it's much shorter and cleaner.
So, below is semantic,
<h1>My Website Name</h1>
<h2>My Website Tagline </h2>
What about this below?
<div id="header">
<h1><span class="hide">My Website Name</span></h1>
<h2><span class="hide">My Website Tagline</span></h2>
</div>
I tend to combine h tags with div and span tags like above - is this practised considered as the lack of semantic?
The reason why I have the span with the hide class is that I want to display the site logo instead of text. So use CSS to set the background of h1 as image and then hide the text. is this incorrect practise?
Then, if I don't use div, what can I use to make a box around the h1 and h2?
As far as I know, html 5 is not fully ready yet, we must not use <header> yet, must we??
Thanks.
I would do something like the following if I was going to use HTML5:
<header>
<hgroup>
<h1>My Website Name</h1>
<h2>My Website Tagline</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
Remember to add display: block; to the HTML5 elements and createElement for IE in the CSS though. The header element shows the block is a header and the hgroup element is there to show that the second h* element is a sub heading, so shouldn't be taken into account when calculating the header levels in the document.
If you don't want to use HTML5 yet then you could use divs instead of the new elements, and use the HTML5 element names as the class value. This will make it easier to switch over when you feel comfortable using HMTL5 on a live site.
You don't really need to use the span elements. You can use tricks such as using a large negative text-indent in the CSS to hide the text off the screen.
If you want to display a logo instead of text, use an image. Google say so (even if they don't know the difference between a tag and an attribute). Taglines, BTW, are not subheadings (and the site name (and thus logo) is usually only a heading on the homepage).
<div id="header">
<h1><img src="foo.png" alt="My Website Name"></h1>
<p><img src="foo.png" alt="My Website Tagline"></p>
</div>
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not recognize many HTML5 tags, and when I've tested it, I was unable to set CSS values for the <header> tag, for example. So for now I would recommend that you continue to use div tags to group your semantic meaning.
As a sidenote, Google does not like hidden text, and if you have a lot of it, it will consider it deceptive coding. One is probably fine, but you'd be better off using the alt attribute on the image tag.
Nobody suggested that you should not use DIVs at all... semantic HTML does not mean there cannot be div or span tags in your code. It just only means that whenever possible (there is a specific tag available for a specific semantic meaning) you should try to give semantic meaning.
h2 is not to be used for taglines, as somebody else already suggested.
Also, in my interpretation (some will argue), h1 is not for the name of your website. It is the title for the content on a specific page.
I agree with #David Dorward, the tag line should be in a p tag.
Your example (wrapping the header elements with a div) is perfectly acceptable, though I would like to raise a small caution: Be careful that you do not get in the habit of wrapping everything in div tags. For example:
<div class="content">
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Since a ul tag is already a block element, the above markup would be better off like this:
<div class="content">
<ul class="list">
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
</ul>
</div>
And then just style the ul to look like the div.
On the matter of displaying the logo as an image:
If your logo is text-based, or has text in it, you would be better off doing the following:
HTML
<div id="header">
<h1 class="logo">My Logo Text - My Website Tagline</h1>
</div>
CSS
.logo { text-indent:-9999px;background-image:url(thelogo.jpg) no-repeat;}
/* Also add height and width based on your logo height and width */