ahoy all,
i have a simple example that mixes float-span and grid-span mixins within the same grid context (i.e. the same number of columns in the same row)
http://sassbin.com/gist/7812502/
as you can see, i have 3 items that i want to space out evenly in a row. i use float-span with first and last options on items 1 and 3 to make them sit at the beginning and end of the row respectively, and this works as expected. for the middle item, which i want centered, i assumed i could use grid-span with the correct location to have the 2nd item in the middle. however, what is happening is that the counting of location for grid-span is started after the column taken up by the first floated item. is this expected behavior? in other words, is it allowable to mix float-span and grid-span in the same grid context/row? and if not, what is the preferred way in Singularity for accomplishing the same thing?
i have been searching the documentation wiki, in particular the section on spanning the grid, but have found no statements either way. and the demos do not seem to be using float-span and grid-span together.
thanks as usual for Singularity and for any help.
peace
PS. i have already tried using the isolation-span mixin in place of grid-span with the same results.
It is not advisable to mix output styles like float and isolation in the same grid. You should pick either isolation or floats and stick with it.
Here is your sassbin tweaked a bit: http://sassbin.com/gist/7815953/
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Let's say I have three divs: a, b and c, that share a common wrapper div and that I'd like to align as a triptych.
Is it possible to have either b or c have a fixed width (imagine a sidebar with nav), while the other two expand fluidly? Note that the source order matters (a, b, c order). A max-width (rather than fixed) could work fine as well, as long as it supports fluid expansion of the other two divs.
Yes you can! Check out this SassMeister showing fixed and fluid columns.
Now, there are a couple of caveats to this. First, you need fixed width gutters as you can't have gutters in proportion to fluid columns if not all columns are fluid. Second, you need to be using the calc output style from Singularity Extras. This means your columns will be output using CSS3's calc that, while widely available, does require a fallback for browsers that do not support it. Other than that, the calc output style works exactly like the isolation output style.
Last year when the calc output style was introduced, I wrote a blog post titled Bulletproof Combo Fixed and Fluid Grids with CSS Calc explaining in detail about using calc to create fixed and fluid grids and introducing it to Singularity.
ahoy all,
i have been studying the Singularity grid framework and so far i really like its simplicity and concepts/mental models. however, like others i am still a bit confused about how to do nested grids properly in Singularity. after looking over similar questions:
Still confused with nested grids
Subgrid with floating method and padding
Having to re-declare global context?
i came up with the following examples to created nested grids: one using only grid-span and another using layout and grid-span:
Singularity nested columns using grid-span
Singularity nested columns using layout+grid-span
as you can see they achieve the same end result, though using the layout method feels better. with that in mind, my question is 2 fold:
is there a "best/recommended practice" for creating nested grids with Singularity?
why are the grids drawn bybackground-grid on the same elements different when using grid-span vs. layout? it seems as if the nested columns are being created differently and thus have different "inner" columns? the background grids using layout seem more correct, though even there some of the elements look incorrect (e.g. the "first" element has 10 columns inside it drawn by background-grid while it only spans 8 columns of the parent container, and the "a" & "b" elements have 6 columns drawn inside it by background-grid though they only span 3 columns of the parent container).
i apologize in advance if i am misunderstanding some simple idea of Singularity. in fact, it is probably likely ;)
thanks in advance for any help.
peace
layout is for when you are nesting lots of things. You just specify your context once and then you can nest sub-elements within that nested context.
grid-span offers one-time context assignment. It’s for nesting an individual element.
If you need to use background-grid within a nested context, you should use layout and it should identify the correct context. background-grid is prone to rounding errors, especially in webkit based browsers and the guides may be slightly off.
I'm using singularitygs as my grid system and am really like the flexibility but I have come across a fairly unique situation and I'm not sure if singularity (or any other grid system) addresses
I have a row that span the entire column width, that breaks up the header portion and the content portion of the document. There is an element, div.b, that sits within above the full column bars next to div.a in larger layout. But on a medium sized layout and below, that element falls below the full span row. Here is the source order and the desired output, showed using a 10 column layout for simplicity.
Source Order
div.a
div.b
div.c
div.d
div.e
div.f
div.g
div.h
Large Layout
Medium Layout
Thanks in advance for any help and ++ to the creators of the grid system
Interesting use case. Honestly it’s going to be pretty hard until CSS grid layout comes out. While Singularity can handle any order horizontally, the vertical reordering like "D" and "G" stacked is going to be tricky. There might be a clever use of floats to get this working but it will probably be more hand manipulation of elements than pure Singularity magic.
I'm using jQuery isotope from there: http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
There is a way to sort with multiple types?
For example: moving all green and blue boxes to the top of the container?
Thanks
You can sort for multiple types, see this sample fiddle. The documentation for sorting is here. All you need is to make green or blue a data-category on each div. Or, you could use a class also. See it here how to use the data-category for sorting. It's that simple. And another one is well explained here. Now, you need just a bit of programming to adapt it for your case. But, again, it's all in the original's sorting documentation.
I need to plot and display several jpeg images in a single combined display (or canvas?). For example, suppose I have images {a,b,c,d}.jpg, each of different size, and I would like to plot them on one page in a 2x2 grid. It would be also nice to be able to set a title for each subplot.
I've been thoroughly looking for a solution, but couldn't find out how to do it, so any ideas would really help. I would preferably use a solution that is based on the EBImage package.
There are two ways how to arrange several plots with base graph functions, namely par(mfrow=c(rows,columns)) (substitute rows and columns with integers) and layout(mat) where mat is a matrix like matrix(c(1,2,3,4)).
For further info see ?par, ?layout, and especially Quick-R: Combining Plots.
However, as your question is about images I don't know if it helps you at all. If not, I am sorry for misinterpreting your question.
To add to Henriks solution, a rather convenient way of using the par() function is:
jpeg(filename="somefile.jpg")
op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2)
#plot the plots you want
par(op)
dev.off()
This way, you put the parameters back to the old state after you ran the code. Be aware of the fact this is NOT true if one of the plots gave an error.
Be aware of the fact that R always put the plots in the same order. Using mfrow fills the grid row by row. If you use mfcol instead of mfrow in the code, you fill up column by column.
Layout is a whole different story. Here you can define in which order the plots have to be placed. So layout(matrix(1:4,nrow=2) does the same as par(mfcol=c(2,2)). But layout(matrix(c(1,4,3,2),ncol=2)) places the first plot lefttop, the next one rightbottom, the third one righttop, and the last one leftbottom.
Every plot is completely independent, so the titles you specify using the option main are printed as well. If you want to have more flexibility, you should take a look at lattice plots.
If you do not want the images in a regular grid (the different sizes could imply this), then you might consider using the subplot function from the TeachingDemos package. The last example in the help page shows using an image as a plotting character, just modify to use your different images and sizes/locations.
The ms.image function (same package) used with my.symbols is another possibility.