I'm writing a Bootstrap site and I was wondering if this is acceptable. The site looks how I want it to, but I was wondering if this is best practice?
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3 col-lg-offset-1">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-6 col-lg-push-1">
</div>
</div>
</div>
The approach I'm taking is to use 1 offset for every two missing columns, and use a push for every missing column. What would be the best way to rewrite this for semantic purposes, if at all necessary.
Using Bootstrap offset is perfectly acceptable! What you are using it for (filling in missing columns) is perfectly acceptable too. They would not add it unless they didn't want you to use it.
If you where to not use offset then the only way to move stuff around would be margin (generally). The problem with that is that it ruins the point of using a grid system!
So IMO I think it is perfectly OK to use Bootstrap offset. I use it all the time in my website! :)
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In the Bootstrap 3 documentation they give the following example of using push and pull classes to change column ordering (http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid-column-ordering):
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-9 col-md-push-3">.col-md-9 .col-md-push-3</div>
<div class="col-md-3 col-md-pull-9">.col-md-3 .col-md-pull-9</div>
</div>
I understand how this works but why would you not just write the order in which you want them to appear in your HTML, like this?
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-3"> ... </div>
<div class="col-md-9"> ... </div>
</div>
I can't see any possible use case for the example they give, because whether the order is col-md-3, col-md-9, or col-md-9, col-md-3 you're still not going to gain any more or less width on any device - they still add up to 12. Therefore why not just define it in the HTML in the correct order?
I understand how the classes work technically. But I don't understand what the use case of them could possibly be since they don't appear to do anything you cannot do already by defining things in the order you want? Essentially you can't gain any more or less viewport width on a given device, so where would you ever want to do something like this?
Column ordering classes allow us to change the order of our grid system based on different browser sizes. This means that on a large screen, you can have a different grid than on a mobile screen.
You can check this for example,
https://scotch.io/tutorials/reorder-css-columns-using-bootstrap
why would you not just write the order in which you want them to
appear in your HTML
It's because when we write markup we're supposed to think of its semantics too.
For example you have a page which has a sidebar on the left side, and an article on the right side. In your markup hierarchy the article should comes before the sidebar because the article is the main page content.
But then if you float them left, the article will be on the left side and sidebar will be on the right side, which is the opposite of what you want to achieve. So to fix this you will use push and pull classes, you get the idea.
This is just an example. Of course other options are available to achieve the same result such as float them right, or place the sidebar markup before article but wrap it with <aside> element.
I'm studying web development for a few months now and I generally have some problems with the front-end and the UI layout. I often have difficulties placing the elements exactly where I want them. In that case, either I use relative values and break the responsiveness of the site, or I write some rules that seem to me like hacks.
For the example, let's consider this image:
As you can see, there is a Bootstrap container, full-width background color, two classic elements inside the container and an image outside.
For this kind of layout, I'd do something like the following:
<!-- /* MAIN WRAPPER -->
<div class="pull-right">
<img src="/img/topright_image.PNG" alt="shape">
</div>
<div class="bg-red"> <!-- Red background color. -->
<div class="container">
<header class="row">
<div class="hidden-sm hidden-xs col-sm-2" id="logo"> <!-- I'm using Bootstrap 3, IIRC there's a better way to do that in Bootstrap 4. -->
<img src="/img/logo.PNG" alt="logo">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-push-3" id="title"> <!-- First difficulty, how to make sure the title will always be centered without being relative to the logo and no matter its content? -->
<h1>Centered title</h1>
</div>
</header>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bg-green"> <!-- Multiple containers, just to have colored backgrounds at 100% width of the page. -->
<div class="container">
<section></section>
</div>
</div>
<!-- MAIN WRAPPER */ -->
It's a quick draft, but you get the idea. The CSS will then implement arbitrary height for the header and the section (300px and 400px), then the max-width for the container.
How to do that properly?
(And what if I want to make the logo a little above the title; between two rows?)
"Proper" is relative. Which makes this a tough question to answer. Using only TBS, this solution is how I would do it. However, I tend to favor flexbox more than TBS so I'd probably use the TBS container how you have it set up (yes, doing that to the containers is a valid way of achieving your goal. Another method I have used before, is box-shadows. Neither option is better, but now you know), and then handle each row as a flexbox or even just simply use floats and centering. This is not a very heavy layout.
If you are looking to learn how to do it "properly", I'd read other code. Specifically for TBS I'd recommend Start Bootstrap. It has a bunch of TBS themes you can look at. Look at the code, see how they do it, see what you like, start doing that.
Ultimately, in the end, it doesn't matter how you get there[1] it just matters that you do. This is a viable solution, and I don't see anything glaringly wrong or hackish.
It actually does matter. But you appear to still be in the learning
phase[2] so it doesn't matter as much so long as you are willing to
keep an open mind and correct things as they are found
We are all always learning.
I'd like to ask can this code be correct from Bootstrap point of view? I expect the answer is yes. The question is about additional tag in between row and col(s).
<div class="row">
<something>
<div class="col-sm-6">
a
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
b
</div>
</something>
</div>
P.S. <something> has no css styles and that's a directive from AngularJS.
There is nothing wrong here, but there are better practices on using bootstrap.
Just take care of minus margins and clearfix, check if the style flow its ok.
By the way, you can use "comment directive" if u need to use that something tag just for angularJs directive.
From the Bootstrap docs..
Content should be placed within columns, and only columns may be
immediate children of rows.
The Bootstrap row has a negative margin to compensate for column padding. <something> doesn't specifically cause a problem in your example, but it's incorrect from a Bootstrap standpoint.
In that code, the something tag will simply be given the entire 12 column width of the row div. The internal elements will then be split into the relevant grids as long as there is nothing on the something tag which would interfere.
I think this should work fine, but as a sidenote I would normally write this as
<something>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
a
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
b
</div>
</div>
</something>
That way then gives you the option to add more rows etc into the something section easily if needed, and just aids readability in my humble opinion.
In this case row basically has the same purpose as col-md-12, but row will give you a margin of -15px to both left and right. To avoid a horizontal scroll-bar you can wrap the whole thing in a div with the class container.
looks good to me but i think according to your "something" element it can vary
I am trying to put a detail view between rows in my web application.
I am using Bootstrap and some Frontend Rendering.
My code looks somewhat like this:
<div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
...
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
...
</div>
etc...
I am basically looking for some way to do this in bootstrap or some library that does it. The closest example I could find is in the newest itunes version, I've attached a screenshot for that.
Edit:
What I have tried / thought of:
Put the detail view as an absolutely positioned div inside the tile and give the tile a margin-bottom.
This didn't work out since the layout simply breaks. To make this work, you would have to give all elements in the row a margin-bottom.
Put a set of tiles into a row-div and just insert the detail div after that specific row.
This will either break every responsive feature or require a lot of javascript to somehow dynamically put the divs into rows.
I am basically looking for a library / css hack that makes me able to do this without writing a whole lot of javascript.
For the 'details' row, you'd probable just need to use:
<div class="col-xs-12">
...
</div>
That would force it to span the full width regardless of the screen size. So your 3 rows would look like:
<div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
...
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12">
...
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
...
</div>
Iv'e using Zurb Foundation like a pretty platform for fast develop light projects. And today i've stucked on one thing.
I don't know how to better call it, easer to show...
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2dkhfuq.jpg
So, it happens when above column have too much content.
Also... columns must have non-fixed height and don't use block-grid! TY!
There are 2 ways to interpret what you're asking for. The first is that you're having a floating issue and the columns are stacking to the right. If you want the white space gone, you'll need a JS plugin like Masonry or Isotope.
The other way to interpret this is that you want these to be at the same height. There are 2 ways to go about this with Foundation: Either wrap each row with:
<div class="row">
<div class="small-12 medium-4 columns"></div>
<div class="small-12 medium-4 columns"></div>
<div class="small-12 medium-4 columns"></div>
</div>
The row class basically runs a clear once it starts so it will give them space. You don't need to use my syntax but it would be a working example. If you want to have all the articles be the same height based on the biggest one, Foundation has a great plugin built in called Equalizer.
Equalizer and my column syntax rely on using Foundation 5.