Inline Block Grid

Simple grid system built with display: inline-block. For more about how this technique works, read the blog post.

Install

Several ways to do this. Two are listed below:

NPM Install It

npm install inline-block-grid --save-dev

If you do it this way, you can use with node-sass. Just use --include-path node_modules/inline-block-grid/.

Drag and Drop It

1. Go to the releases page.
2. Click the button to download a zip.
3. Decompress and drop in your SCSS folder.

Plain CSS

The grid is also built to a plain css file, so if you aren't using sass or don't need any customization you can simply grab grid.css and add it to your project.

Use

Whatever install method you used, now you can just:

@import 'inline-block-grid';

This will give you all the classes to start using the grid in your html.

Examples

A simple two column layout would be as follows:

<div class="block-grid">
  <div class="column-6">
    ... some stuff
  </div>
  <div class="column-6">
    ... some other stuff
  </div>
</div>

Or a typical sidebar layout:

<div class="block-grid">
  <div class="column-2 post-1"></div>
  <div class="column-9"></div>
</div>

Or how about a product grid:

<div class="block-grid align-center">
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
  <div class="column-3"></div>
</div>

Class Reference

class	description
.block-grid	Wrap around columns (required)
.column-X	Amount of columns element should span (1-12)
.pre-X	Apply margin-left of X columns
.post-X	Apply margin-right of X columns
.align-right	Column group should right align orphan columns
.align-center	Column group should center orphan columns
.align-baseline	Column content aligned to baseline

Responsive Classes

For easy responsive layouts, each class is also available with small- and medium- prefixes. For example, to create an element that is full-width on a phone, half-width on a tablet, and quarter-width on a desktop:

<div class="column-6 medium-column-12 small-column-24">
  <h1> Responsive Columns!</h1>
</div>

There are also responsive pre and post classes for spacing:

<div class="column-4 pre-12 small-pre-6 medium-pre-2"></div>

Responsive Class Reference

class	description
small-column-X	Width at small screen size
small-pre-X	Margin left at small screen size
small-post-X	Margin right at small screen size
medium-column-X	Width at medium screen size
medium-pre-X	Margin left at medium screen size
medium-post-X	Margin right at medium screen size

Customization

If you are using sass, you can customize several aspects of the grid:

Variable	Description	Default
$column-count	Number of columns in the grid	12
$gutter	Amount of space between the columns	1rem
$font-reset	Default font family for your project	sans
$size-small	Small size breakpoint	480px
$size-medium	Medium size breakpoint	960px

License

©Paul C Pederson 2015 under the Fair License

Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works is notified of this instrument.

DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.