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.
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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 have a basic 2 column table for a form. In the left column are the labels, and in the right column are the inputs. When the user submits the form, if there are errors I want to display them directly to the right of the input in which the error was relating to. Could anyone provide an example of how to position a div next to the table row without shifting the columns across?
You could have the <div> representing the error inside of the <tr>. If there is no error it could just be empty. You can use a js templating framework like Mustache.js to pass arguments into your <div>.
I would encourage the use of Flex Grid. This is a CSS ruleset that will help you layout your form. You can still use two column format, with the only change being the you will probably want to reduce the size of the first column relative to the second column, to leave room for an error message.
Another option would be to use abandon tables and use CSS Grids instead.
Take a look at these links for more information:
http://flexboxgrid.com/
https://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-flexbox-grids/
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
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.
I would like to implement a UI with 1 or 2 columns depending on screen/device width. I'm using Ajax to load data into these two columns and append it according to those item heights so both columns take approx. the same amount of vertical space.
Everything's ok if user keeps their browser window size the same at all time, because initial loading will either fill 1 or 2 columns. But the problem arises when the user resizes their window I have to consolidate all content accordingly:
smaller size hides column 2 and all it's items should be inserted into columns 1 in correct order
larger size displays both columns and takes some content from column 1 and puts it into column 2
I can use Javascript to do this, but I was wondering whether it's possible to do the same in CSS only way?
An example of this is Google+ that works with 1..3 columns depending on content width.
I came up with a solution of my own
It is possible using CSS only but maybe not feasible
Feasible in terms of resource consumption. When adding items on the page, always put all of them in column 1 adding an additional CSS class to those that you also position in column 2.
Responsive media queries will then either:
Hide column 2 and show those additional items in column 1 (based on CSS class).
Show column 2 and hide items with appropriate CSS class in column 1
That's the only way to avoid Javascript processing when user resizes their browser window.
The problem
The only problem there is to this functionality is when you display lots of items, because your DOM will have on average 50% more nodes as approximately half of those items will be duplicated across the page (even though only one copy of those duplicates will be shown at a time).
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.