Adding Borders to Web Page Columns with BlueTrip CSS - Review: generic span-x CSS classes
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Below I've reintroduced one of the examples I used in the previous article to show you how to use the BlueTrip CSS framework to build a simple web page layout. it works by using the framework's generic "span-x" CSS classes. Here it is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Basic example on using BlueTrip (showing the background grid)</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/print.css" type="text/css" media="print">
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection">
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="container showgrid">
<div class="span-24">
<h1>BlueTrip CSS Grid example showing the grid</h1>
</div>
<div class="span-8">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</div>
<div class="span-8">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</div>
<div class="span-8 last">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</div>
<div class="span-16">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</div>
<div class="span-8 last">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As shown above, creating a simple web page layout with BlueTrip is only a matter of utilizing the generic "span-x" and "last" CSS classes in accordance with the type of design that needs to be built. In this case, the previous web document uses an additional "showgrid" CSS class to display the background grid, but naturally in production environments it should be hidden from view.
Undoubtedly, understanding the logic that BlueTrip implements to create and position columns across a web page is very simple, even when the CSS classes used during this process lack a truly semantic meaning. So, assuming that you're familiar with the basics of working with the previous "span-x" classes, it's time to explore a few more features of the framework.
Thus, in consonance with the concepts deployed in the introduction, in the section to come I'm going to explain how to use another CSS class provided by BlueTrip for adding subtle borders to columns of a web page.
To learn the details of this process, click on the link below and keep reading.
Next: Adding borders to web page columns >>
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