Changing Grid Units in the Blueprint CSS Framework - Completing the web page layout
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As you might guess, turning the raw (X)HTML file defined in the previous segment into a two-column web page layout is reduced to attaching the source files of Blueprint CSS to the corresponding markup and nothing else.
The below code sample demonstrates how to accomplish this. Have a look at it, please:
<!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>2-column web page layout</title>
<!-- framework CSS source files-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /><![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="container showgrid">
<div class="span-24">
<h1>2-column layout</h1>
<h2>This section spans 24 cols</h2>
<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">
<h2>This section spans 16 cols</h2>
<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>
<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">
<h2>This section spans 8 cols</h2>
<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-24">
<h2>This section spans 24 cols</h2>
<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>
Simple to code and read, right? Now, if you try out the above example on your own browser, you should get an output similar to the following:
For the sake of clarity, I decided to keep the background grid visible, but naturally it can be easily hidden from display by removing the “showgrid” CSS class from the main “container” div. Now, have fun by tweaking this class and the ones that span grid units to produce different sorts of web page layouts. I used to do this when I’ve had problems sleeping, and it works like a charm.
Final thoughts
In this second part of the series, I went through the development of a two-column web page layout using the Blueprint CSS framework. Indeed, this process is extremely straightforward, meaning that you shouldn’t have major problems if you ever want to implement it when building your own web sites.
In the forthcoming article, I’ll be discussing the use of “append-x” CSS classes with Blueprint CSS. Now that you’ve been warned about the topics that will be covered in the next tutorial, you won’t want to miss it!
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