FIRST ISSUE:
Let's say I have a section in my website where I want to break the width of the container 1200px width. In this section I need to position an image on the very left side of the browser screen and on the right side some text.
I assume that in order to make this I have to use container-fluid and I'm using it like this:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div> HERE IS THE CONTENT FOR IMAGE AND TEXT </div>
</div>
</div>
When I check this in the browser:
It appears an horizontal scrollbar and I have to remove the negative margins of the .row class in order to get rid of the scrollbar.
Is this the normal way of doing this?
SECOND ISSUE:
Let's say I want to create a section where I want to have a full width background color and the content to be withing the default bootstrap grid width of 1200px.
Is it necessary to create an container-fluid in order to do this? Or is better just to create an extra div an add there the background color ?
In Bootstrap, the grid is defined by three components: the container, the row and the column(s). The container comes in two flavors: container, which sets the max-width of the container for each of the specific breakpoints defined in Bootstrap and centers the container within the viewport; and the container-fluid, which simply sets the width to 100% of the viewport display. Both the containers set the padding to 15px.
The purpose of the row is to contain the columns which float left by default, so it will automatically clear the float. It has a -15px margin to negate the padding added by the container.
The columns go inside your rows. Columns are based on a grid of 12. If you only need one column at the x-small breakpoint and up, then add one col-xs-12. Want two equal columns at that viewport width, add two col-xs-6. Columns have 15px of padding left and right, so there are always consistent gutters.
The row margins negating the container width may sound useless, but it's important and very clever, because it allows you to nest rows and columns inside other columns allowing you to create an endless combination of grid divisions.
So, your issue is that you're not using the grid the way it is designed. You must have at least one column inside a row inside a container.
In bootstrap you need the following structure:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xx-xx">
...content goes here...
</div>
</div>
</div>
The reason of this structure is that the container will try to grab and center the content, in the case of the .container-fluid, it grabs 100% width columns instead of the traditional ~960ish pixels that has been used.
The row will allow you to allocate 12 columns of content in the order you decide, which is the next div.
The class .col-xx-xx will allow you to specify the breaking point of that column, lg for large devices, md for medium devices sm and xs for mobile/tablet devices.
The second dual xx in .col-xx-xx will allow you to specify how many of the 12 columns you're going to take in that container. For Example, .col-lg-3 Will be a column who's breaking point is as large device (1200px or so) and it will take 3 column spaces.
So it is necessary to use the structure above, else you will have that scrollbar on the x-axis bothering.
EDIT
As for your second problem, it is really necessary that you use the structure given above in the code, you want it to be full width? that means, no margins and paddings, I have a small trick for that that I have been using for a while now, I'll explain it below:
Use a container with the class of jumbotron as follows:
<div class="jumbotron my-own-jumbotron">
...content goes here
<div>
Since the jumbotron es designed to be responsive, it will act as a responsive container. on the next class, .my-own-jumbotron specify the background image or color you want for it, and depending on the content you add to it, it will adjust the size of it. I don't know if that's the solution you're looking for, but here's a demo:
https://www.hsoto.me/00295134567891srgsrgsrht36erdrbd5ye546/ipotra/
The third div will be a jumbotron with a custom background-image that expands as needed, and you can resize it and view it on a mobile device, and it is complete responsive, and full width.
I found that this way, it is not necessary to use the .container-fluid div.
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I am using Bootstrap. I have div with class="row" and three columns inside with divs in each column.
The third column overflows outside the row div, which could be fixed by giving padding-right to row div. But it still repeats when resized to smaller size.
While resizing from md to sm to xs, the column divs overlap during the transition.
How do I fix this?
If all of your columns (col--) add up to 12 you should be alright. If it's an image that's overflowing (which it sounds like it is) you can add the img-reponsive class to it. This will set max-width: 100% which sounds like the issue but I can't be sure without a code sample.
I have a question about what would cause the following error in bootstrap 3.
Earlier I was writing some HTML and using CSS to style and was using bootstrap 3 for the rows and the columns.
Now I had everything inside of a fluid container and the container had margins etc. It has a standard header, and each row was split into two columns where each size has a width of 6 ie col-lg-6 .... inside of the container and then I had labels and inputs inside of my rows. Just a basic layout.
Now, whenever I tried to give a bottom border to each row I noticed that after inspecting the element the row was actually outside of the designated
columns / div.
However, when I changed the class from row to row-fluid it works perfectly. Why is this? Also, I noticed that if I make a clear-fix div after using row-fluid it fixes some apparent spacing issues, is this a requirement when using row-fluid or is my code just messed up somewhere.
Asking, because I thought row-fluid was only a bootstrap 2 and not a 3 thing, or am I mistaken?
I would include a fiddle showing you exactly what I'm talking about, but don't have the code available atm.
TWBS-2
http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/scaffolding.html#global
TWBS-3
http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid-intro
The <div> nested under your <div class="row"> carry the attributes container width dependent on viewport size, including all gutters and padding.
Comparing TWBS-2 and TWBS-3, TWBS-3's grid framework is designated as fluid for all viewport sizes. .row-fluid is not documented as an option, but I would refer to their version history for those specific changes. If the version history of the <div class="row-fluid"> applies, then the gutters and padding of its children's <div> columns becomes full-width to the size of the container rather than fixed-width as designated by the rules of the TWB-S3 grid system without .row-fluid designation.
How create table via div which always centered their cells. I mean, if width for example 302 px, table show 3 divs in one line with width of 90px, and space between those divs and border are equal (8px). And if table width changed to 210px, 2 div will shown in one line with equal space (10px), and third div will move to the next line. Window width is dynamic.
I would suggest using css and frameworks such as: twitter bootstrap or zurb foundationn, Check this out to get the overlaying image about responsive frameworks these have pre-set setups but you can also modify them to your liking..
You would need to change
x,y,z
to suit you because I don't exactly follow your math, HTML tables are out dated and should not be used!
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-x">.col-md-4</div>
<div class="col-md-y">.col-md-4</div>
<div class="col-md-z">.col-md-4</div>
</div>
I develop a front-end for a site and run into a serious problem. I use bootstrap 3 to make the site responsive.
I use the grid feature to layout but I need to meet the following requirements:
- The columns must have the same height
- There should have space between columns
The first problem is sold via SO. I set the row to overflow: hidden; and the columns to margin-bottom: -99999px; padding-bottom: 99999px; This solve the column height problem but I can't put space the outer part of the columns because I use all of the 12 columns. (col-md-4, col-md-4, col-md-4 / col-md-8, col-md-4) If I set side margin to the columns the last column wrapped to the next line.
The other problem to use the column as container is margin-bottom and the padding-bottom values. I can't set border-radius because the bottom border is not visible.
It's obvious to use an inner container. I did that but the inner div didn't fill the available height. I made a Codepen example.
I tried the following:
- Set the inner div position to relative/absolute with bottom: 0 value
- Set height, min-height 100% with combination of
inline/block/inline-block
My first choice would be a CSS solution because of the mobile first approach but I will consider any other solution too. The jQuery is loaded (required by the JavaScript component of the bootstrap) and the knockout also loaded.
About the example. The purpose is that the aqua colored 'panels' have to be the same height (inside a row of course) even if its content is smaller than the available space. If you didn't use Codepen before, You could use the editor/full page menu to view the example in full screen.
Thanks for any advice.
Twitter bootstrap uses variable #grid-gutter-width which is used to set as padding for left and right of all columns if you want to increase or change space between columns then modify this variable value which you will find in variables.less
So my problem is this - I have a div with fixed size of 970px. Inside it I want to create a horizontal menu where the first element will be a link to the home page with the logo of the company and the others will be standard links to different parts of the page.
What I want is to make the link with the logo wider than the other links and let the other links occupy the space left equally. Due to the fact that in near future the width of the container div may be changed even though I know the number of links I would like to use percentages to determine their width so the width of one link will be = (width of the div - width of the logo link)/5 (the number of link I'll have.
I tried with something like this
<div id="main-container">
<div id="logo-container">
</div>
<div id="standard-menu-container">
</div>
</div>
But I couldn't make it work (In fact all this is wrapped in one other div that I haven't shown here). So googling about this I get to the understanding that maybe using some sort of table may solve my problem. To be honest I have never used table this way but I followed an example and I got this result : JSFiddle Example where the red rectangle is meant to be my Logo link and the problem is that everything else is stacking under. In this particular example the logo link is excluded from the <ul> but I played around with that case too and simply trying to set one width in pixels and other - in percentage seems to be not what I need to do.
I would appreciate any help, just bare in mind that I tried a lot of styling with divs and display: inline-block and it breaks other parts of my structure so I would prefer a solution where the normal flow is not disturbed (like using a table for example)
You're on the right lines with the display: table-cell. I've made a few changes where you had extra code that wasn't needed, and set the <ul> to display: table, rather than the container. Adding table-layout: fixed will make items in the list (the cells) occupy an equal width.
Then, float the logo left, don't specify a width for #main-menu-navigation because then it will fill remaining space, and give it margin-left: 150px to cater for width of logo.
So that won't make much sense when read. Take a look here:
http://jsfiddle.net/LREbC/1/
Try resizing, the cells will adapt to the width.
Note: When using table-cell you don't need to define a width, the behaviour is the same as actual table cells.