Multi-column CSS layout with rounded borders - css

Question

Problem:
I am trying to create a multi-column CSS layout with borders that look something in line with this picture:
Code:
<div style="border-radius:4px; border: 1px solid #ddd;">
<div style="display:block;float:left;width:50%;">
<div><b>Författare:</b> '.$authors.'<br></div>
<b>Handledare:</b> '.$row['Supervisor'].'<br>
<b>Examinator:</b> '.$row['Examiner'].'<br>
<b>Design av studie:</b> '.$design.'
</div>
<div style="display:block;float:left;width:50%;">
<b>Examinationsdatum:</b> '.$row['ExaminationDate'].'<br>
<b>Nivå:</b> '.$level.' ('.$credits.')<br>
<b>Kommentar:</b> '.$row['Comments'].'<br>
<b>Övrigt:</b> '.$row['Participants'].' deltagare, '.$row['Reference'].' referenser
</div>
</div>
The above-mentioned code will produce the following:
Question:
What needs to be modified so I can get the horizontal and vertical lines to the box?

Answer 1

You can modify the CSS to look like this:
.row {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
margin-bottom: -1px;
}
.left {
display: inline-block;
width: 50%;
border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
}
.right {
display: inline-block;
width: 49%;
border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
margin-left: -1px;
}
.top {
border-top-right-radius: 4px;
border-top-left-radius: 4px;
}
.bottom {
border-bottom-right-radius: 4px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 4px;
}
.outerBox {
margin: 10px;
}​
Then have your markup look like this:
<div class="outerBox">
<div class="row top">
<span class="left"><b>Författare:</b> '.$authors.'</span><span class="right"><b>Examinationsdatum:</b> '.$row['ExaminationDate'].'</span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<span class="left"><b>Handledare:</b> '.$row['Supervisor'].'</span><span class="right"><b>Nivå:</b> '.$level.' ('.$credits.')</span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<span class="left"><b>Examinator:</b> '.$row['Examiner'].'</span><span class="right"><b>Kommentar:</b> '.$row['Comments'].'</span>
</div>
<div class="row bottom">
<span class="left"><b>Design av studie:</b> '.$design.'</span><span class="right"><b>Övrigt:</b> '.$row['Participants'].' deltagare, '.$row['Reference'].' referenser</span>
</div>
</div>
CAVEAT: The formatting will break if you put a space between the spans on an individual line, so don't break them; otherwise, take this solution and work out something that doesn't break =) ​
You can see a working example at http://jsfiddle.net/saluce/XhnBE/
EDIT: It seems that mPDF doesn't like inline-block, so change this part of your CSS:
.left {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 50%;
border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/saluce/XhnBE/1/

Answer 2

You could use two lists side by side:
<div style="border-radius:4px; border: 1px solid #ddd;">
<ul style="display:block;float:left;width:50%;">
<li><b>Författare:</b> '.$authors.'</li>
<li><b>Handledare:</b> '.$row['Supervisor'].'</li>
<li><b>Examinator:</b> '.$row['Examiner'].'</li>
<li><b>Design av studie:</b> '.$design.'</li>
</ul>
<ul style="display:block;float:left;width:50%;">
<li><b>Examinationsdatum:</b> '.$row['ExaminationDate'].'</li>
<li><b>Nivå:</b> '.$level.' ('.$credits.')</li>
<li><b>Kommentar:</b> '.$row['Comments'].'</li>
<li><b>Övrigt:</b> '.$row['Participants'].' deltagare, '.$row['Reference'].' referenser</li>
</ul>
</div>
You'll need to add some styles to get rid of the default styles for lists and add you borders to the top, bottom and sides of your lis .
A down side of this is that you'll have to give your lis fixed heights so the borders line up.

Answer 3

You have to change your marke-up. You need a table or more boxes to do this. I think tables would be easier to manage... and somehow this is a case tables are for.
Or you take a bg-image... but I won't recommend this

Answer 4

Check this: http://jsfiddle.net/eNEzs/
It's enough to correct your css a little bit and wrapp items in div's.
<div style="border-radius:4px; border: 1px solid #ddd; margin: 20px;">
<div class="block">
<div><b>Författare:</b> '.$authors.'</div>
<div><b>Handledare:</b> '.$row['Supervisor'].'</div>
<div><b>Examinator:</b> '.$row['Examiner'].'</div>
<div><b>Design av studie:</b> '.$design.'</div>
</div>
<div class="block">
<div><b>Examinationsdatum:</b> '.$row['ExaminationDate'].'</div>
<div><b>Nivå:</b> '.$level.' ('.$credits.')</div>
<div><b>Kommentar:</b> '.$row['Comments'].'</div>
<div><b>Övrigt:</b> '.$row['Participants'].</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>​
CSS
.block {
display:block;
float:left;
width:50%;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.block:first-child {
border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
}
.block div {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}
.block div:last-child {
border-bottom: 0px;
}
But I would recommend you to simply change elements to a table or list (ul or ol). Above solution is simply for this particular exmaple.

Answer 5

Wrap each cell in a div instead of using br, and add border-left and border-bottom on the appropriate element. If you still want to use 50% width, then use box-sizing: border-box; to keep it from wrapping.
See this jsfiddle for one way to do it, though you should use classes to properly select which elements to apply the different styles to.