I'm new to Bootstrap and loving it so far but have a couple of simple questions to do with the grid - can't seem to find the answers anywhere...
<div class="container">
<div class="row" style="background-color: #ccc;"> <!-- 1. How do I get this background colour to exclude the left 20px gutter? -->
<div class="span5">
Left Col
<div class="row">
<div class="span5">
<input class="span5" type="text"/> <!-- 2. How do I stop this input from shifting right 20px in IE7? -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="span7">
Right Col
<div class="input-prepend">
<!-- This lines up correctly, even in IE7 - my star hack will break this -->
<span class="add-on">+</span><input type="text" placeholder="Add..." class="span6">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Having inspected the bootstrap css I can see that .row starts by pulling back the margin-left by 20px, so that each time a .spanX is created, it has a 20px gutter to the left. This makes sense, but how can I apply style to the whole row (e.g. a background colour) and have this apply to all columns within that row (the span5 and span7 in my example) but without including the left hand 20px gutter?
Secondly, what is the best way to set the widths of elements within a column? In my example I have tried to size a textbox to fill the width of the left hand column by placing it in a nested row with span5. This doesn't work in IE7 - instead it moves to the right by 20px and I lose the right hand gutter.
To see this, check out http://jsfiddle.net/jRcJG/ in IE7 vs good browsers.
The closest I've got is to put together an IE hack to shift the inputs back again, but this causes other problems such as squashing up the input-prepend in the right column:
http://jsfiddle.net/JsBpV/
Unfortunately the project I'm working on must support IE7 so I don't have the luxury of ignoring these users.
Thanks for any help!
A simple but not necessarily elegant solution for #2 is to add an IE star hack inside a class:
input.ie-fix-left, textarea.ie-fix-left {
*margin-left: -20px;
}
which requires you to put a class on each input element that is affected by this problem:
<div class="row">
<div class="span6">
<input type="text" class="span6 ie-fix-left"/>
</div>
</div>
Create a div with .span12 and include another level of row/span with your .span5 and span7
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(There's a similar question here, but I am too much of a noob yet to translate this onto Bootstrap)
What I want is to have an area on the page between "header" and "footer" (let's call it "body"), which may have a
some fixed section, like BS4 "row", put on the top,
some variable content, consisting of several BS "rows", AND aligned
vertically on the middle of what is left of the body (or of the body
itself)
Can it be done in a responsive manner, and without JS (using only Bootstrap 4 CSS) ?
I've tried some stuff:
<body>
<div id="root" class="container">
<div style="height: 100%;">
<div><h1>HEADER</h1></div><hr>
<div style="min-height: 60%;">
<div class="h100">
<div>some badge</div><br>
<div>
<div class="row justify-content-between">
<div class="col-3">Item #2</div>
<div class="col-3 text-right">
<div>some stats</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div class="row justify-content-center">
<div class="col text-center"><h3>THIS SHOULD BE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BLANK SPACE</h3></div>
</div>
<div class="row justify-content-center">
<div class="col-4 text-right"><button class="btn btn-link">it's just below and left</button></div>
<div class="col-4 text-left"><button class="btn btn-link">it's just below and right</button></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div><hr>
<div class="footer">FOOTER</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
(https://jsfiddle.net/f93mhdbr/) but as long as I add "d-flex" onto "body" div, or any of it's children, all the previous "row"/"col"-based layout turns into horrible mess ! (see https://jsfiddle.net/f93mhdbr/2/)
I suspect this is due to Bootstrap itself using Flexbox for column and rows,
but maybe any solution exists?
I will try to work on improving this question, I know it's very poor, but I right now I am too much in a despair to work it all out...
UPDATE: added links to whatever I was trying to reproduce
You need to use the flex property to achieve it. Using flex-grow here will make your variable element to grow and fill the remaining height of its container, if there is any. Then all is left to do is set align-items-center on the element to align it on the x-axis.
Here is the Fiddle
Please note I added background-colors so it's easier for you to see how much space each element uses, or use an inspector.
You can set any fixed height for the header, footer and content-top. The height of content and content-remaining will adapt responsively, because they have the property flex-grow: 1 set on them. Here's an example.
To explain further, because the container wrap has a min-height: 100-vh, the content element will grow to fill the entire viewport relative to the rest of the flexible items inside the wrap container. The same logic applies to content-remaining, the only difference is that its parent is the content element and not the wrap container.
As last, I added the IE fix for the min-height property on flex-items. It's a known bug and a quick and reliable fix is to wrap it in a separate flex container.
Hopefully this was helpful to you, if you have any questions left please comment on this answer.
I have an image, single character in a span (equal sign), and then a div where child elements are added/replaced via js.
However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it all aligned properly (fear I'm over thinking and complicating it.)
I'm using bootstrap's grid (row/col) system as well.
Something akin to...
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-2 col-offset-lg-1">
<div class="response-part">
<img src="foo" />
<span class="opensans">=</span>
<div id="rp1" class="opensans inline" style="width: 50px;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-2">
<div class="response-part">
<img src="foo" />
<span class="opensans">=</span>
<div id="rp2" class="opensans inline" style="width: 50px;">
<span class="opensans">X</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
See jsfiddle
Wanting image centered middle along equal sign (vertical-align) as well as span within neighboring div (and the text in that span appearing just a few pixels off the bottom line.)
I saw this but none of the solutions are addressing the problem for me (I can only guess it is because of the third element and font, etc.)
UPDATE1: Edited sample html to correctly reflect the scenario in which the response-part.div is empty (initial state, possible transition state as user interacts with the page.) Updated fiddle
UPDATE2: I "fixed" the issue occurring with no child elements by adding an initial element in the initial html for the response-part, and then adding one back in when the user removes all other elements. A bit hackish, would appreciate a fix that didn't involve this workaround if possible. Updated fiddle
PS: I initially considered using bootstrap v4 (with flexbox support) but it is still alpha. Alternatively, I also looked into using FlexboxGrid, however I still need bootstrap for other features and FlexboxGrid uses similar classes ("row", etc) as bootstrap, which I assumed would cause name conflicts (if I included both in my project, eg: which "row" class would be used!)
Try using display: flex; on your response-part class. Something like this:
.response-part {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
I edited your fiddle. Take a look on it: https://jsfiddle.net/gusLnyyh/6/
I am using bootstrap for making responsive website but when I am giving padding to elements to adjust them in particular column it is breaking in other devices.
I am giving padding in % still it's breaking.
What should I do?
What is the best way to adjust elements within a particular column?
You should keep the grid elements intact. Add children inside them to add padding.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="element-with-padding"></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="element-with-padding"></div>
</div>
</div>
I want to create little panels/dashboard for my interface. In my case I want to have two panels like so
+-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+
Generally it is easy with Bootstrap 3.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-5">
</div>
<div class="col-md-5 pull-right">
</div>
</div>
The problem is, the gap of col-md-2, as it is the case here, is way too big. I cannot use a col-md-1 gap, because then both sides do not have an equal size.
I also tried to add padding right and left, but that had not effect, too. What can I do here?
You could add a class which modifies the width of col-md-6. The width of this class is set to 50%. A smaller gap is achieved by reducing the width like so:
.dashboard-panel-6 {
width: 45%;
}
Add this to your div elements. This way the width rule of col-md-6 gets overriden.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 dashboard-panel-6">...</div>
<div class="col-md-6 dashboard-panel-6">...</div>
</div>
You can use another div inside and give padding to that.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="inner-div">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 pull-right">
<div class="inner-div">
</div>
</div>
</div>
.inner-div{
padding: 5px;
}
I posted this here already but it is still relevant the original question.
I have had similar issues with space between columns. The root problem is that columns in bootstrap 3 and 4 use padding instead of margin. So background colors for two adjacent columns touch each other.
I found a solution that fit our problem and will most likely work for most people trying to space columns and maintain the same gutter widths as the rest of the grid system.
This was the end result we were going for
Having the gap with a drop shadow between columns was problematic. We did not want extra space between columns. We just wanted the gutters to be "transparent" so the background color of the site would appear between two white columns.
this is the markup for the two columns
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="raised-block">
<h3>Facebook</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-5">
<div class="raised-block">
<h3>Tweets</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.raised-block {
background-color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: -0.625rem; // for us 0.625rem == 10px
padding-left: 0.625rem;
padding-right: 0.625rem;
}
#media (max-width: 33.9em){ // this is for our mobile layout where columns stack
.raised-block {
margin-left: -0.625rem;
}
}
.row [class^="col-"]:first-child>.raised-block {
// this is so the first column has no margin so it will not be "indented"
margin-left: -0.625rem;
}
This approach does require an inner div with negative margins just like the "row" class bootstrap uses. And this div, we called it "raised-block", must be the direct sibling of a column
This way you still get proper padding inside your columns. I have seen solutions that appear to work by creating space, but unfortunately the columns they create have extra padding on either side of the row so it ends up making the row thinner that the grid layout was designed for. If you look at the image for the desired look, this would mean the two columns together would be smaller than the one larger one on top which breaks the natural structure of the grid.
The major drawback to this approach is that it requires extra markup wrapping the content of each columns. For us this works because only specific columns needed space between them to achieve the desired look.
Hope this helps
Here's another possibility:
Live view
Edit view
You will see that it uses 2 col-md-6, each with a nested col-md-11, and you position the nested row in the second div to the right.
The suggestion from Ken has clean HTML which I like. If your left and right panels use elements with widths defined by Bootstrap though (eg wells or form elements) the column padding could cause hassles and break the layout. This nested approach might be easier in this situation.
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-11">nested row col-md-11</div>
</div><!-- end nested row -->
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-11 col-md-offset-1">nested row col-md-11</div>
</div><!-- end nested row -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
Good luck!
Here is what I have.
I played with DIV tags but still cannot figure out how to use them to design this page?
one of the problems I am having is that I cannot correctly align the "Alias" label with its TextBox that is under it...and also putting these controls on the same line - for example Reference Sequence and Ancestry is another problem I could not fix yet.
Tables shouldn't be considered unless it's truly tabular data. I'd recommend the blue and green spaces be div elements with set widths, floated left. The grey div should be cleared. The green and blue sections seem to be separated for layout convenience and are not related content, so I wouldn't recommend fieldset over div elements.
If you give label and input/select elements set widths and use display: block, the label display shouldn't be problematic. The Not Found link and checkbox seem to be the only unique parts to the form.
Float the top 2 divs (blue and green), set a width for each of them and toss a margin-right on the blue one (or a margin-left on the green one) to get the red space you want.Then have the bottom div clear so it skips onto the next line.
As for the "Alias" label and alignment issue, I'd suggest using an unordered list with list-style:none. Each label would go on its own li, as would each input. This should automatically line them up left justified, as is the case with your current form. Plus it has the benefit of not having to hard-set the width (if that's something that can be said to be an issue in this case).
example markup
<li><label>Alias</label></li>
<li><input type='text'></li>
Try this. It is likely that it will work.
You may have to tweak few style values for your needs.
<div style="clear:both">
<div id="topLeft" style="float:left;width:400px;padding:7px">
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
Gene Symbol
</div>
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
//drop 'Gene Symbol Search Box' here
</div>
//repeat Gene Symbol like divs for other elements
</div>
<div id="topSeparator" style="float:left;width:10px">
</div>
<div id="topRight" style="float:left;width:400px;padding:7px">
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
Alias
</div>
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
//drop 'Alias Box' here
</div>
//repeat Alias like divs for other elements
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;margin:10px 0 0 0;padding:7px">
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
//drop checkbox here
</div>
<div style="clear:both;margin:5px 0">
//drop buttons here
</div>
</div>