CODEWITHSUNDEEP
htmlcssflexbox
maxspan
maxspan

Reputation: 14177

How can I show three columns per row?

I have been trying to show three columns per row. Is it possible using flexbox?

My current CSS is something like this:

.mainDiv {
    display: flex;
    margin-left: 221px;
    margin-top: 43px;
}

This code puts all content in a single row. I want to add a constraint to just shows three records per row.

Upvotes: 127

Views: 402026

Answers (5)

Danny
Danny

Reputation: 4124

You can take advantage of a library that you may already have installed, bootstrap, and use their grid system which uses flexbox under the hood, while giving an easy to use semantic class naming system to implement it:

<!-- containers can have one or many child grids. Each grid should have a child row, which hold child columns -->
<div class='container'>
  <div class='row'>
    <div class='col'>col</div>
    <div class='col'>col</div>
    <div class='col'>col</div>
  </div>
</div>

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Chris Halcrow
Chris Halcrow

Reputation: 31990

You can now use grid-auto-flow

https://jsfiddle.net/chalcrow/bqye79kr/1/

CSS

.grid-flow {
    display: grid;
    grid-auto-flow: row;
    grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
    grid-template-rows: repeat(2, 1fr);
}

Note - the repeat(3, 1fr) means '3 columns, each taking up 1 (equal) fraction of the available space.

HTML

<div class="grid-flow">
    <div>1</div>
    <div>2</div>
    <div>3</div>
    <div>4</div>
    <div>5</div>
    <div>6</div>
</div>

Result

enter image description here

Upvotes: 14

RoboBear
RoboBear

Reputation: 5764

Even though the above answer appears to be correct, I wanted to add a (hopefully) more readable example that also stays in 3 columns form at different widths:

.flex-row-container {
    background: #aaa;
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
}
.flex-row-container > .flex-row-item {
    flex: 1 1 30%; /*grow | shrink | basis */
    height: 100px;
}

.flex-row-item {
  background-color: #fff4e6;
  border: 1px solid #f76707;
}
<div class="flex-row-container">
  <div class="flex-row-item">1</div>
  <div class="flex-row-item">2</div>
  <div class="flex-row-item">3</div>
  <div class="flex-row-item">4</div>
  <div class="flex-row-item">5</div>
  <div class="flex-row-item">6</div>
</div>

Hope this helps someone else.

Upvotes: 84

HAPPY SINGH
HAPPY SINGH

Reputation: 586

Try this one using Grid Layout:

.grid-container {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: auto auto auto;
  padding: 10px;
}
.grid-item {
  background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);
  border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  padding: 20px;
  font-size: 30px;
  text-align: center;
}
<div class="grid-container">
  <div class="grid-item">1</div>
  <div class="grid-item">2</div>
  <div class="grid-item">3</div>  
  <div class="grid-item">4</div>
  <div class="grid-item">5</div>
  <div class="grid-item">6</div>  
  <div class="grid-item">7</div>
  <div class="grid-item">8</div>
  <div class="grid-item">9</div>  
</div>

Upvotes: 31

Barun
Barun

Reputation: 4431

This may be what you are looking for:

http://jsfiddle.net/L4L67/

body>div {
  background: #aaa;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

body>div>div {
  flex-grow: 1;
  width: 33%;
  height: 100px;
}

body>div>div:nth-child(even) {
  background: #23a;
}

body>div>div:nth-child(odd) {
  background: #49b;
}
<div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
</div>

Upvotes: 211

Related Questions