

As a result, it will be significantly easier to drop in your grid layout system of choice – whether it is custom built, or part of a framework such as Bootstrap or Foundation. All of these changes were accomplished by the team working to convert Drupal from PHPTemplate to Twig. Markup is almost entirely contained in template files, and the theme function has been virtually eliminated from core. It does, however, provide the cleanest, most semantic markup of any version of Drupal to date. Out of the box Drupal 8 does not provide any support for a universal fluid grid. Where possible, I've noted where this might be the case. Some things are likely to have changed between now and Drupal 8's official release. The article was written against Drupal 8.0-alpha13.
#Drupal view responsive columns how to
In this article we'll take a look at how to implement each of these three principles in your Drupal 8 themes. In practice, it has been a lot more complicated to implement these guidelines so that they work across devices and are respectful of the slower connection speeds we often experience on mobile devices.
#Drupal view responsive columns code
Using the tools above, we can put together this magic bit of code that does exactly what we want! -gap-count: calc(var(-grid-column-count) - 1) The following CSS will set the minimum width to the, and if it has room, it’ll stretch all the cells out equally to fit the parent’s width! minmax(, 1fr) Let’s put it all together and make some magic! This is exactly what the minmax() function is designed to do. We’re getting close, but there’s one key ingredient that’s missing: The grid doesn’t always stretch to its parent’s container’s width. Learn more about the max() function with Chris Coyier’s article on the CSS min(), max(), and clamp() functions. Now we have another key to making this work! This will tell the grid cell to go to its maximum width - which takes into account the user-specified columns) - but will never go under 100px. grid-item-max-width: calc((100% - var(-total-gap-width)) / var(-grid-column-count)) total-gap-width: calc(var(-gap-count) * var(-grid-layout-gap)) We can calc()-ulate this in CSS! (Who says CSS isn’t programming?) -gap-count: calc(var(-grid-column-count) - 1) What we really need is something like this instead: max(calc(25% - ), 100px) However, the 25% value is still not quite correct because it doesn’t take the grid gaps into account. So, assuming a four-column grid and minimum cell width of 100px, the max() function would look something like: max(25%, 100px). But, we can’t have it go below the user-specified minimum width.

That’s where the max() function comes in! We want each grid cell’s width to max out at a certain percentage, say 25% for a four-column grid. For more info on auto-fill, check out Sara Soueidan’s awesome article on the difference between auto-fill and auto-fit, which includes this helpful video showing how it works.īut how to we make sure that it doesn’t fill in too many columns? The CSS max() function We need each row to fill up with as many columns as possible.

The code above uses several modern CSS tools including CSS Grid’s repeat(), auto-fill(), and minmax() functions, as well as the CSS max(), and calc() functions. CodePen Embed Fallback Theory and tools behind the auto-filling CSS Grid
