Bootstrap Grid System
- Introduction and Installation
- Buttons, Glyphicons, Tables
- Vertical Forms, Horizontal Forms, Inline Forms
- DropDowns and Responsive Tabs
- Progress Bar and Jumbotron
Prerequisites: Web Development Basics and BootStrap (Part-1)
Grid System: In the previous article we had learnt about Bootstrap and its Installation.However, from this article, we are going to start with learning Bootstrap. We are going to talk about the Bootstrap Grid System in this article.
Grid System: Bootstrap Grid System allows up to 12 columns across the page. You can use each of them individually or merge them together for wider columns. You can use all combinations of values summing up to 12. You can use 12 columns each of width 1, or use 4 columns each of width 3 or any other combination.
Grid Classes: The Bootstrap grid system has four classes that can be combined to make more flexible layouts:
- xs (<576px): For Portrait Mobile Phones.
- sm (>=576px): For Landscapes phones
- md (>=768px): For Tablets/Phablets
- lg (>=992px): For Small-sized Desktops/Laptops
- xl (>=1200px): For Larger-sized Desktops/Laptops
Note: Output can be little difference as shown, it depend on your screen size.
Components of Grid System: We will be learning the Components of the Grid system one-by-one:
- Containers: Bootstrap requires a containing element to wrap site contents and house our grid system. The word ‘container’ is a container of row elements and row elements are ‘containers’ of the column elements. You will understand it more in the latter part of the article where we have dealt with columns.
Use ‘container’ for a responsive fixed width container and use ‘container-fluid’ for a full width container, spanning the entire width of your viewport.
Example:
html
<!DOCTYPE html><!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet"href=<scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script></head><body><header><divclass="container"><h1style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1><strong>A computer Science portal for Geeks</strong></div></header><footer><hr/><divclass="container"><p>Visit</a>our website</p><p>Like</a>us on facebook</p></div></footer></body></html>Output:
Note: The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document. The <div> tag is used to group block-elements to format them with CSS.
- Rows: Rows must be placed within a ‘container’ or ‘container-fluid’ for proper alignment and padding. We use rows to create horizontal groups of columns.
Example:html
<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Bootstrap Example</title><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet"href=<scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script></head><body><header><divclass="container"><h1style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1><strong>A computer Science portal for Geeks</strong></div></header><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">First row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-success w-100">Second row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">Third row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-success w-100">Fourth row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">Fifth row</div></div></div><footer><hr/><divclass="container"><p>Visit</a>our website</p><p>Like</a>us on facebook</p></div></footer></body></html>
Output:
- Columns: Grid columns are created by specifying the number of twelve available columns you wish to span. For example, three equal columns would use three “col-sm-4”.
Example:html
<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Bootstrap Example</title><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet"href=<scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script></head><body><header><divclass="container"><h1style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1><strong>A computer Science portal for Geeks</strong></div></header><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">First row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-success w-100">Second row</div></div></div><br/><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="col-sm-4"><divclass="well bg bg-danger">1st Column</div></div><divclass="col-sm-4"><divclass="well bg bg-warning">2nd Column</div></div><divclass="col-sm-4"><divclass="well bg bg-secondary">3rd Column</div></div></div></div><footer><hr/><divclass="container"><p>Visit</a>our website</p><p>Like</a>us on facebook</p></div></footer></body></html>Remember we can use all the grid classes (xs, sm, md, lg and xl) for different screen sizes.
Output:
But, we would face a major problem in this case. Notice that for devices like mobiles portrait(xs) and landscape(sm), the columns would stack upon one another. If we want our columns to stay in the same row, no matter what the size of the device is, then we must use xs. But then, sometimes it looks ugly.
So, we can build even more dynamic and powerful layouts with using more than one choice for columns. Let’s say we define the attributes for 4 columns as shown below.
<div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-5 col-xl-6"> <div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-5 col-xl-6"> <div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-5 col-xl-6"> <div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-5 col-xl-6">
What this means is:
Example:
html
<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet"href=<scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script></head><body><header><divclass="container"><h1style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1><strong>A computer Science portal for Geeks</strong></div></header><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-secondary w-100">First Row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">Second row</div></div></div><br/><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="well bg bg-success">First Column</div></div><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="well bg bg-danger">Second Column</div></div><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="well bg bg-warning">Third Column</div></div><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="well bg bg-primary">Fourth Column</div></div></div></div><footer><hr/><divclass="container"><p>Visit</a>our website</p><p>Like</a>us on facebook</p></div></footer></body></html>- Output: In different size screen
- Extra Small
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Extra large
- Extra Small
Column Resets: With the four tiers of grids available, we are bound to run into issues where at certain breakpoints, the columns don’t quite clear right as one is taller( has more text) than the other column. A command called clearfix is there which fixes any issues regarding that viewport. We just need to write a div command with class clearfix after the block where the column isn’t clearing right.
Let’s say we have an issue with the md and sm viewport. But if we are using
But then it is causing problems for other viewport (maybe lg and xs) . So, what we can do is make clearfix visible only for the md and sm block or hide all other blocks (lg and xs).
or
Columns Offset: We can move the columns to the right by x columns using col-md-offset-x in the class.
<div class="col-xs-3 col-sm-4 col-md-6 col-lg-1 col-lg-offset-2“>
This change results in making an offset of 2 grid columns before the fourth column.
Nesting Columns: For nesting columns within a column, we need to add a new row and set of columns. Nested rows should include a set of columns that add up to 12 or less than that.
Example:
html
<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Bootstrap Example</title><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet"href=<scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script><scriptsrc=</script></head><body><header><divclass="container"><h1style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1><strong>A computer Science portal for Geeks</strong></div></header><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-secondary w-100">First Row</div></div><divclass="row"><divclass="bg bg-primary w-100">Second Row</div></div></div><br/><divclass="container"><divclass="row"><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="bg bg-success">First Column</div></div><divclass="col-xs-2 col-sm-6 col-md-3col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="bg bg-danger">second Column<divclass="row"><divclass="col-md-3 col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="bg bg-success">First Nested Column</div></div><divclass="col-md-3 col-lg-4 col-xl-6"><divclass="bg bg-primary">Second Nested Column</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><footer><hr/><divclass="container"><p>Visit</a>our website</p><p>Like</a>us on facebook</p></div></footer></body></html>
Output:
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Supported Browsers:
Article By Harshit Gupta: 
Kolkata based Harshit Gupta is an active blogger having keen interest in writing about current affairs, technical Blogs, stories, and personal life experiences. Besides passionate about writing, he also loves coding and dancing. Currently studying at IIEST, he is an active blog contributor at geeksforgeeks. You can reach him at https://in.linkedin.com/pub/harshit-gupta/102/b71/605
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