I'm building a page full of hyperlinks which are gotten from querying a content management system, so the number of links is variable.
The requirements need me to display all the links over 3 columns and make it look presentable.
So at the moment I've got myself a Map<Category, Hyperlink> and when I display it at the moment its in one big list on the page.
Is there some way I can dynamically get my columns to flow into each other so that each column contains a similar number of hyperlinks?
Thank you.
The easiest way I can think of to do this is to put the links in to an unordered list, then set the style for each list item so that they are 33% of the available width and displayed inline.
You might try looking at the following sites:
https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://articles.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/5100-10878_11-5268973.html
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks
The second one is the best one, in my opinion. I used it before when I had the same problem. It gives all the code, really nice illustrations and you can just copy the code free of charge. I think this is exactly what you are looking for.
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I have an MVC View where I need to display DATA in a certain format, example below is in alphabetic with a numerical value tied to that letter. It needs to be Top Down, split into 2 different columns. As shown in the image attached it is alphabetic going down, then when half way through it needs to start on the next column, row 1.
This will be in a partial view and be used with several different result sets. Definitely cannot hard code.
I dont have any code right now as I could either use either a table or just some Spans. Open to suggestions.
I've thought of splitting the array in half, then just looping through each array item by item but wondering if there is a better way.
Thanks in advance!!
Depending on your HTML structure (difficult to tell as you haven't shown it), you could possibly use css column-count:
.yourElement
{
column-count:2;
}
Other than that, splitting the array in half is not such a bad idea, i suppose it depends on the length.
I have a list item from RSS I used the zRSSFeed in particular. I would like to have a custom image on each of the list items. I'm presenting them in blocks or 3 in a row on normal width. Technically I guess I could target each one of them separately, I have no more than 6 of them, but I was wondering if there was a much better way to do it. It would be no problem if I could add some additional classes, but the HTML is generated by RSS.
Any ideas?
I'm attempting to rearrange elements on a Volusion store for my employer. The products page we currently have looks like This
I've been tasked with moving the details box
(containing "Nothing says "I'm ready to learn!"), up and to the right, to align with the price box.
The box is a table contained in a hierarchy of nested tables, at roughly the same "depth" in a different branch.
I don't have access to the HTML for the page, only a template html file that generates menus and footers along with the relevant CSS. Some JS exists on the site but since I lack experience with it, I'm hesitant to get into it.
Because of the table-and-div structure, and the fact that I cannot edit the HTML, I'm left with tweaking stylesheets and possibly some javascript. My issue is this: How, using only these tools, can I take an element in one container and reposition it relative to elements in another container? I've tried
Position:Relative;
left:some percentage;
top:some negative percentage;
Which, for a single page, I can get to look quite good, but if I allow others to load the page it falls apart completely, due mostly to the fact that the container for the element I'm moving is calculated based on screen width, and the container for the destination is calculated with the width minus a constant value(the image for the product).
My employer is willing to accept that the arrangement won't be perfect, they know Volusion is the devil complex. But it's important to them that their products display all relevant information "above-the-fold". Obviously I've not found any sort of answers on this. I don't find all that many people who have to edit a webpage without access to the raw code, because that's stupid. Worse still, moving an element to align with a completely different container is just bad policy as I gather, but its what I'm being asked to accomplish.
The only way to do this on Volusion is with javascript. You do not have access to the HTML for the product page and given that it is built with tables there is no way to move the product description area up with CSS.
You need to use javascript to detach and append the product description box below the product details area.
There is no way around it... You need access to the HTML files. You could do it with absolute positioning but that is not good practice.
Because you are working with a template; if you change the arrangement of that page then all of the other product pages will follow. So the reason you can't find the HTML is probably because you are looking for a .php containing html..
I suggest to spend time understanding the template or get a volution expert.
I have got a requirement where the outlook is as shown in the attached image
I have accomplished the task by making use of tables in HTML and styling using CSS.
The criteria is that the images in a row is almost the same (i.e the two images) and the content changes for every row. So the content is different on every row but the images remain the same for every row. Just for info there will be multiple number of rows. What would be the best practice to implement such as design other than using tables, where it should also be flexible to change the content. Or using tables is the best option.
Suggestions from the professionals are appreciated.
I don't want to write it for you but I've made a quick mock up for you to have a look at - http://jsfiddle.net/spacebeers/TAJdw/
You don't want to use tables for anything other than tabular date anymore. You're much better off spending your time researching CSS.
Have a look at my example. It's what one instance of a content container could look like. What you want to do from there is look at getting two of them in a row. Build the CSS for the .container class, then copy another instance of .contentContainer in and see what results you get.
I'm happy to provide help if you want but it's always good to have a crack at it yourself. You'll get better answers on here and avoid unnecessary downvoting of your question.
It is generally advisable to use pure css for things like this, rather than tables. Tables cause your page to render slower, as the content needs to be loaded before the rendering engine can correctly draw them.
Try something like this
I would consider using a div with a background image style to it so that for each row with the same image all you will need to do is put that specific div class in. Then you can just position the outer div's to get it to look correctly, although tables are not the most efficient way of build web pages they still work.
Like mez said - you need to think about repeating content - and learning about floats. I'd really advise working through this site
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
it will teach you all the basics of designing with divs.
In the meantime - here's roughly what your're after. I've added background colours and made up all the heights and widths, as they weren't specifie, but it should get you started.
If you look at the html, I've annotated what is just a repeat of earlier content.
http://jsfiddle.net/zandergrin/k8EsP/3/
I have an html table that literally has like 30 columns of data, and I'm having a hard time framing it in such a way that it can be visible without massive left/right scrolling.
One thing I was wondering is if anyone has ever seen anything clever with column headers? Some of them just can't be abbreviated down enough, but the column header is something like "Interview" and the value is numeric (lots of wasted space for the header alone). Granted, I could try and name these columns like INT or whatever, but there are lots of similarly named columns that it could become confusing.
Maybe some sort of auto collapsing columns based on mouse movement? Not sure.. I just need some creative suggestions on how to display this data!
Most likely the user will have a devil of a time comprehending 30 columns of data, regardless of scrolling.
I would recommend showing the most fundamental columns (things like name, description, identifying numbers -- core stuff, hopefully there are only 10 of them or less), and then letting the user toggle on or off whatever columns they need. A bit like google squared.
Use Jquery and CSS to accomplish this in a clean fashion. There may also be Javascript UI libraries that do this for you (Jquery UI, YUI, others...)
create images for the column names and rotate the text in the image 90 degrees. you can then have a long name with equally small widths.
Josh
I agree with the answer from ferocious, toggling columns is a good idea. Also, depending on the data, I would recommend only having a few columns displayed, and when the user clicks on the row they are interested in, it moves to a new page dedicated to the data in that record. This will work for some types of data and not for others