I have the following HTML layout:
<div> <div>Column center</div> <div>Column left</div> <div>Column right</div>
</div>Any chance to arrange the columns like on the below sample grid without changing HTML using CSS only?
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| | | |
| Column left | Column center | Column right |
| | | |
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Something like this should do it:
.column-left{ float: left; width: 33.333%; }
.column-right{ float: right; width: 33.333%; }
.column-center{ display: inline-block; width: 33.333%; }EDIT
To do this with a larger number of columns you could build a very simple grid system. For example, something like this should work for a five column layout:
.column { float: left; position: relative; width: 20%; /*for demo purposes only */ background: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; box-sizing: border-box;
}
.column-offset-1 { left: 20%;
}
.column-offset-2 { left: 40%;
}
.column-offset-3 { left: 60%;
}
.column-offset-4 { left: 80%;
}
.column-inset-1 { left: -20%;
}
.column-inset-2 { left: -40%;
}
.column-inset-3 { left: -60%;
}
.column-inset-4 { left: -80%;
}<div> <div>Column one</div> <div>Column two</div> <div>Column three</div> <div>Column four</div> <div>Column five</div>
</div>Or, if you are lucky enough to be able to support only modern browsers, you can use flexible boxes:
.container { display: flex;
}
.column { flex: 1; /*for demo purposes only */ background: #f2f2f2; border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; box-sizing: border-box;
}
.column-one { order: 3;
}
.column-two { order: 1;
}
.column-three { order: 4;
}
.column-four { order: 2;
}
.column-five { order: 5;
}<div> <div>Column one</div> <div>Column two</div> <div>Column three</div> <div>Column four</div> <div>Column five</div>
</div>This is less for @easwee and more for others that might have the same question:
If you do not require support for IE < 10, you can use Flexbox. It's an exciting CSS3 property that unfortunately was implemented in several different versions,; add in vendor prefixes, and getting good cross-browser support suddenly requires quite a few more properties than it should.
With the current, final standard, you would be done with
.container { display: flex;
}
.container div { flex: 1;
}
.column_center { order: 2;
}That's it. If you want to support older implementations like iOS 6, Safari < 6, Firefox 19 or IE10, this blossoms into
.container { display: -webkit-box; /* OLD - iOS 6-, Safari 3.1-6 */ display: -moz-box; /* OLD - Firefox 19- (buggy but mostly works) */ display: -ms-flexbox; /* TWEENER - IE 10 */ display: -webkit-flex; /* NEW - Chrome */ display: flex; /* NEW, Spec - Opera 12.1, Firefox 20+ */
}
.container div { -webkit-box-flex: 1; /* OLD - iOS 6-, Safari 3.1-6 */ -moz-box-flex: 1; /* OLD - Firefox 19- */ -webkit-flex: 1; /* Chrome */ -ms-flex: 1; /* IE 10 */ flex: 1; /* NEW, Spec - Opera 12.1, Firefox 20+ */
}
.column_center { -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; /* OLD - iOS 6-, Safari 3.1-6 */ -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2; /* OLD - Firefox 19- */ -ms-flex-order: 2; /* TWEENER - IE 10 */ -webkit-order: 2; /* NEW - Chrome */ order: 2; /* NEW, Spec - Opera 12.1, Firefox 20+ */
}Here is an excellent article about Flexbox cross-browser support: Using Flexbox: Mixing Old And New
1.container{
height:100px;
width:500px;
border:2px dotted #F00;
border-left:none;
border-right:none;
text-align:center;
}
.container div{
display: inline-block;
border-left: 2px dotted #ccc;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 100px;
} .column-left{ float: left; width: 32%; height:100px;}
.column-right{ float: right; width: 32%; height:100px; border-right: 2px dotted #ccc;}
.column-center{ display: inline-block; width: 33%; height:100px;} <div> <div>Column left</div> <div>Column center</div> <div>Column right</div>
</div> See this link
CSS:
.container { position: relative; width: 500px;
}
.container div { height: 300px;
}
.column-left { width: 33%; left: 0; background: #00F; position: absolute;
}
.column-center { width: 34%; background: #933; margin-left: 33%; position: absolute;
}
.column-right { width: 33%; right: 0; position: absolute; background: #999;
}HTML:
<div> <div>Column center</div> <div>Column left</div> <div>Column right</div>
</div>Here is the Demo :
2CSS:
.container div{ width: 33.33%; float: left; height: 100px ;} Clear floats after the columns
.container:after { content: ""; display: table; clear: both;}
