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user3810900
user3810900

Reputation:

Way to reproduce this layout effect with css?

Short of creating a 7 column / 3 row table with a 1 pixel image that can be expanded to simulate the lines, how can this layout be reproduced using HTML and CSS without a table or an image for the "dividers"?

What I really like about it is how the lines don't intersect.

enter image description here

<!-- layout reproduced -->
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
    <TR ALIGN="center">
        <TD CLASS="boldedcolor4text">the first</TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="20"></TD>
        <TD CLASS="boldedcolor4text">the second</TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="20"></TD>
        <TD CLASS="boldedcolor4text">the third</TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="20"></TD>
        <TD CLASS="boldedcolor4text">the fourth</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR ALIGN="center">
        <TD COLSPAN="7"><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="520" HEIGHT="1"></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR ALIGN="center">
        <TD><A CLASS="image" HREF="><IMG SRC="1.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="0"></A></TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="135"></TD>
        <TD><A CLASS="image" HREF="><IMG SRC="2.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="0"></A></TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="135"></TD>
        <TD><A CLASS="image" HREF="><IMG SRC="3.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="0"></A></TD>
        <TD><IMG SRC="/gfx/Style1/color1.gif" ALT="" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="135"></TD>
        <TD><A CLASS="image" HREF="><IMG SRC="4.jpg" ALT="" BORDER="0"></A></TD>
    </TR>
</TABLE>

Upvotes: 8

Views: 568

Answers (2)

Sergej
Sergej

Reputation: 1092

You could try it like: https://jsfiddle.net/wh48rjvt/

SCSS:

$border: 1px solid grey;
.table-row {
  border-bottom: $border;
  &:last-child {
    border-bottom: 0;
  }
  .table-box {
    border-right: $border;
    margin: 0.75rem 0;
    &:last-child {
      border-right: 0;
    }
  }
}

this makes following CSS:

.table-row {
  border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
}
.table-row:last-child {
  border-bottom: 0;
}
.table-row .table-box {
  border-right: 1px solid grey;
  margin: 0.75rem 0;
}
.table-row .table-box:last-child {
  border-right: 0;
}

HTML:

<div class="container">
  <div class="table-row row">
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">1</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">2</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">3</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">4</div>
  </div>
  <div class="table-row row">
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">5</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">6</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">7</div>
    <div class="table-box col-xs-3">8</div>
  </div>
  ...
</div>

And I used Bootstrap for the grid.

Upvotes: 1

Andy Hoffman
Andy Hoffman

Reputation: 19111

No dependencies for my solution. I create a flexbox .container and then four flex .items. The default direction for flexbox is row, which is what we want for the outer layout, but not for the contents of each item in the row. To adjust this, I changed the flex-direction of the children (.item) to column since, in your example, the images are stacked beneath the anchors.

For the non-breaking border between the anchors and the images, I took a bit of a shortcut and moved the styles to a pseudo class. Notice the position: relative; on .item. This was done to create a safe container in which to hold the absolutely positioned pseudo class borders.

.container, .item {
  display: flex;
}

.item {
  flex-direction: column;
  position: relative;
}

.item:before {
  content: '';
  border-top: 1px solid;
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  top: 2em;
}

.item:first-child:before {
  left: 1.5em;
}

.item:last-child:before {
  left: -1.5em;
}

.item:last-child .link,
.item:last-child .img {
  border-right: none;
}

.link,
.img {
  border-right: 1px solid;  
}

.link {
  text-align: center;
}

.img {
  margin-top: 2em;
  padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em;
}
<div class="container">
  <div class="item">
    <a class="link" href="">link 1</a>
    <img class="img" src="http://placehold.it/100x130" alt="" />
  </div>
  <div class="item">
    <a class="link" href="">link 2</a>
    <img class="img" src="http://placehold.it/100x130" alt="" />
  </div>
  <div class="item">
    <a class="link" href="">link 3</a>
    <img class="img" src="http://placehold.it/100x130" alt="" />
  </div>
  <div class="item">
    <a class="link" href="">link 4</a>
    <img class="img" src="http://placehold.it/100x130" alt="" />
  </div>
</div>

Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/1sbx2h5e/

Upvotes: 10

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