5 Equal Spans in 1 Row - Twitter Bootstrap

Question

Using the fluid grid layout I can get 4 equal spans:

<div class="row-fluid">
  <div class="span3">...</div>
  <div class="span3">...</div>
  <div class="span3">...</div>
  <div class="span3">...</div>
</div>

Or I can get 6 equal spans:

<div class="row-fluid">
  <div class="span2">...</div>
  <div class="span2">...</div>
  <div class="span2">...</div>
  <div class="span2">...</div>
  <div class="span2">...</div>
  <div class="span2">...</div>
</div>

But how do I get 5 equal spans?

Answer 1

I have followed bootstraps methods for calculating widths and have come up with the following. You will want to follow the HTML structure of as follows:

<div class="row-fluid-5">
    <div class="span2">Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum</div>
    <div class="span2">Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum</div>
    <div class="span2">Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum</div>
    <div class="span2">Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum</div>
    <div class="span2">Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum</div>
</div>

Then, after you load bootstrap.css and bootstrap-responsive.css, load your custom.css file with the following:

/* CUSTOM 5 COLUMN SPAN LAYOUT
  *
  * based on http://gridcalculator.dk/
  * width => 1200, gutter => 15px, margin => 15px, columns => 5
  */
 .row-fluid-5 {
   width: 100%;
   *zoom: 1;
 }
 .row-fluid-5:before,
 .row-fluid-5:after {
   display: table;
   line-height: 0;
   content: "";
 }
 .row-fluid-5:after {
   clear: both;
 }
 .row-fluid-5 [class*="span"] {
   display: block;
   float: left;
   width: 100%;
   min-height: 30px;
   margin-left: 1.875%;
   *margin-left: 1.875%;

   -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
      -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
           box-sizing: border-box;
 }

 .row-fluid-5 .controls-row [class*="span"] + [class*="span"] {

   margin-left: 1.875%;
 }
 .row-fluid-5 [class*="span"]:first-child{
    margin-left: 0;
 }
 .row-fluid-5 .span2 {
   width: 18.5%;
   *width: 18.5%;
 }

 /* responsive ONLY */

 @media (max-width: 600px){ /* spans reduce to 100px then go full width */

    .row-fluid-5 [class*="span"]{
    margin-left: 0;
    float: left;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 10px; 
    }
 }

Check out the demo below to see how it works.

DEMO

Answer 2

Considering that by default bootstrap is 12 columns, you cannot mathematically get 5 equal spans.

However, if you really need to (bad idea, more on that in a second), you can customize your bootstrap download to have 15 columns.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/customize.html

Change the @gridColumns variable to 15, then use 5 columns all with a span3.

It is a bad idea though. Bootstrap is 12 columns because 12 works well. Using 12 gives you support for 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 width columns. With a 15 column layout, you will only have support for 1/3rd width (and a lot of strange other sizes). Your call though, the setting is there.

Answer 3

You need to generate custom grid (e.g. 10). There is no way to create 5 equal raws in 12 column grid

Answer 4

Or you could add this to your css (or the bootstrap.css) - This is my preferred way to solve this. The "15" used to throw me a little bit, but just try to remind yourself it's 1/5th.

.col-xs-15,
.col-sm-15,
.col-md-15,
.col-lg-15 {
    position: relative;
    min-height: 1px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
}

.col-xs-15 {
    width: 20%;
    float: left;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
.col-sm-15 {
        width: 20%;
        float: left;
    }
}
@media (min-width: 992px) {
    .col-md-15 {
        width: 20%;
        float: left;
    }
}
@media (min-width: 1200px) {
    .col-lg-15 {
        width: 20%;
        float: left;
    }
}

Then just use it like you would any other bootstrap class.

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-15 col-sm-3">
    ...
    </div>
</div>