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I am starting with Twitter Bootstrap and have a question about how layout functions in it. Here is the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Bootstrap Test</title>
<link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script src="bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="span4">a</div>
<div class="span8">b</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="span12">c</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
style.css:
div.container
{
background-color:#aaa;
}
div.span4, div.span8, div.span12
{
background-color:#eee;
border: 1px solid #888;
border-radius:3px;
}
Adding border to span4 and span8 increases their width and I end up with this:
span4 and span8 get stacked while they should be on the same line. I realize I could decrease their width in my .css file and correct this, or use this:
http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/
but does Bootstrap provide means to correct this (not adding extra CSS every time I add or remove border, etc)
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The span classes in bootstrap have specific widths so adding a border throws off the total for the row and forces them to wrap. To get around this I usually put the border styling on a div inside the div with the span class. Something like this:
HTML
<div class="row">
<div class="span4">
<div>a</div>
</div>
<div class="span8">
<div>b</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.span4 > div, .span8 > div
{
background-color:#eee;
border: 1px solid #888;
border-radius:3px;
}
I had exactly the same issue and playing with the box-sizing didn't help at all. The only solution that worked for me in the end was to use row-fluid.
The difference with row-fluid is that they are based on percentages, not fixed pixels. Then the child spans in a row always add up to 12, instead of adding up to their parent span width in the normal pixel width rows.
So for example yours would now be
<div class="container">
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span4">a</div>
<div class="span8">b</div>
</div>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12">c</div>
</div>
</div>
Now you don't get any issues with changing margins, paddings, or borders.
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