Grid layout

As we cannot guarantee the Blocks within the a Micro Grid and make use of the child combinator > and the universal selector * to target them.

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Usage

A Simple Grid is written to go from single column, to two column, to their respective column count depending on the size of the viewport.

You can define the number of columns with a modifier class.

Do Not Use with any component that uses the <table> HTML element as this breaks built-in browser accessibility for screen readers etc.

Currently (16/03/20) The vf-grid is expecting to be a parent of vf-body. It does, however, work inside embl-grid now as we have added CSS to make it respect the boundaries so that it doesn't break.

Visual Framework Grid (auto layout)

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Visual Framework Grid (defined columns)

If you have Blocks that need to be laid out on both X and Y axis you will need to add the modifier classes.

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<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-2"> ... </div>
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<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-3"> ... </div>
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Visual Framework grid column spans

You can span multiple columns. There are also responsive grid spans.

HTML
<p class="vf-grid__col--span-2">2</p>
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Variants

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout"
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout"
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid">

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 2
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 2
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-2">

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 3
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 3
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-3">

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 4
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 4
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-4">

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

    <h3 class="vf-box__heading">Did you know?</h3>
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  </div>

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

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  </div>

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 5
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 5
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-5">

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

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  </div>

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Nunjucks syntax

Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.

Using include

You'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.


{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 6
}
 %}
{% include "../path_to/vf-grid/vf-grid.njk" %}
                

Using render

This approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.

{% render '@vf-grid', {
  "component-type": "layout",
  "vf_grid__columns": 6
} %}
                
HTML
<div class="vf-grid vf-grid__col-6">

  <div class="vf-box vf-box-theme--primary vf-box--normal">

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Examples

Installation info

This component is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install the vf-grid with this command.

$ yarn add --dev @visual-framework/vf-grid

Sass/CSS

The source files included are written in Sass(scss). You can point your Sass include-path at your node_modules directory and import it like this.

@import "@visual-framework/vf-grid/index.scss";

Make sure you import Sass requirements along with the modules. You can use a project boilerplate or the vf-sass-starter

Changelog

Changelog

1.4.1

  • changes any set- style functions to cleaner version

1.4.0

  • fixes flexbox fallback grid when there are items on two or more rows
  • fixes widths on flexbox fallback grid.

1.3.0

  • makes the layout something that can now use 'extends' within nunjucks

1.1.0

  • adds grid row span utility classes

1.0.5

  • fixes a remaing bug with IE11 where we relied on the calc function
  • https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/900

1.0.4

  • fixes a bug with IE11 where we relied on the calc function inside the flex (which IE11 does not support) in the flexbox fallback grid defined columned classes (.vf-grid__col-2 > * {...) etc)
  • https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/882

1.0.2

  • fixes issue with vf-grid inside vf-body https://github.com/visual-framework/vf-core/pull/802

1.0.1

  • Removes over-agressive border on 1 column layouts

1.0.0

  • Initial stable release

Assets



File system location: components/vf-grid

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