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Vegar
Vegar

Reputation: 12898

CSS Grid - enforcing common column size across list items

I have a <ul>-list, where each list item contains multiple sections of text.

I want want each section of text to be as narrow as possible, but I still want all of them to be aligned vertically across the items. E.g.

<ul>
  <li> A. Name     | Some complex address        | 555-1234 </li>
  <li> Longer Name | Short Addr.                 | 555-1234 </li>
  <li> P. Diddy    | No home                     | 555-1234 </li>
</ul>

I hoped css grid would solve this issue for me, but I can't figure it out...

ul {
  list-style: none;
  display: grid;
  justify-content: stretch;	
}

li {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: auto 1fr auto;
  grid-column-gap: 10px;
}

p:nth-child(1) {
  background: #EEEEEE;
  border-right: 1px solid;
}

p:nth-child(2) {
   background: #CECECE;
   border-right: 1px solid;
}


p:nth-child(3) {
    background: #EEEEEE;
}
<ul>
  <li>
    <p>A. Name</p>
    <p>Some complex address</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>Longer Name</p>
    <p>Short Addr.</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>P. Diddy</p>
    <p>No home</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
</ul>

Is css grid the wrong tool for the job, or am I missing something here?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 119

Answers (2)

vals
vals

Reputation: 64164

A new way to solve this problem would be to use display: content.

It will flatten your HTML keeping it semantic.

Support is still low, but probably it will come sooner than subgrid.

You can find this article in CSS Tricks interesting

ul {
  list-style: none;
  justify-content: stretch;	
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: auto 1fr auto;
  grid-column-gap: 10px;
}

li {
  display: contents; /* make it disapear */
}

li:nth-child(odd) {
  background-color: red;
  color: blue;
  font-weight: bold;
}

p:nth-child(1) {
  border-right: 1px solid;
  background-color: inherit;
}

p:nth-child(2) {
   background: #CECECE;
   border-right: 1px solid;
}


p:nth-child(3) {
    background: #EEEEEE;
}
<ul>
  <li>
    <p>A. Name</p>
    <p>Some complex address</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>Longer Name</p>
    <p>Short Addr.</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>P. Diddy</p>
    <p>No home</p>
    <p>555-1234</p>
  </li>
</ul>

Upvotes: 3

Temani Afif
Temani Afif

Reputation: 272806

They need to belong to the same grid to have this result, so you may try something like this:

Yes there is no more list

.list {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: auto 1fr auto;
  grid-column-gap: 10px;
}

p:nth-child(3n + 1) {
  background: #EEEEEE;
  border-right: 1px solid;
}

p:nth-child(3n +2) {
  background: #CECECE;
  border-right: 1px solid;
}

p:nth-child(3n+3) {
  background: #EEEEEE;
}
<div class="list">
  <p>A. Name</p>
  <p>Some complex address</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>

  <p>Longer Name</p>
  <p>Short Addr.</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>

  <p>P. Diddy</p>
  <p>No home</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>
</div>

Or consider display:table and you can keep your list structure:

.list {
  display: table;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  border-spacing: 10px;
}
.list li {
  display:table-row;
}
p {
 display:table-cell;
}
p:nth-child(1) {
  background: #EEEEEE;
  border-right: 1px solid;
  white-space:nowrap;
}

p:nth-child(2) {
  background: #CECECE;
  border-right: 1px solid;
  width:100%;
}

p:nth-child(3) {
  background: #EEEEEE;
  white-space:nowrap;
}
<ul class="list">
<li>
  <p>A. Name</p>
  <p>Some complex address</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>
</li>
<li>
  <p>Longer Name</p>
  <p>Short Addr.</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>
</li>
<li>
  <p>P. Diddy</p>
  <p>No home</p>
  <p>555-1234</p>
</li>
</ul>

Upvotes: 3

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