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James Eden
1,539 PointsColumn layout with horizontal flow?
Hi. Just a side project I'm working on... wondering if I can can achieve it with pure CSS. I want to make a Pinterest style layout with divs stacked in say a 5 column grid [all divs of differing heights so I can't do it with floats], but I want to be able to add new divs now and again and have the newest ones appear across the top; not down the left column. So 1-5 would be the top row, 6-10 second row, 11-15 third row etc... So adding a new div would push the rest along to the right and the 5th onto a new line.
If that makes sense?!
i want to make it fluid/responsive too but I'll look at this later. Partly the reason for the question too as I want the latest post/div to show at the top of a mobile device and recede in date order as you scroll down.
Many thanks! James.
4 Answers
Josh Page
1,928 PointsWorking on something in codepen, wait 1 minute :)
James Eden
1,539 PointsNice one...
Josh Page
1,928 Pointshttp://codepen.io/JoshuaPage/pen/LDstG, This does the basics, its the nth child element in the css which does it. If you add a div about the first cell they should all push down a row.
look here and here for more: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_nth-child.asp http://css-tricks.com/useful-nth-child-recipies/
James Eden
1,539 PointsCheers Josh, I didn't think of it that way. I'll have a play around.
J