How to create five equal columns in Bootstrap ?
Creating any number of equal columns in a ‘row’ was never as easier as it is now of Bootstrap 4.0+. With the introduction of ‘flexbox’ approach to the grid system, designers don’t have to worry about adding additional CSS to make it work. Here’s how it is done.
- Approach:
- Go to the Bootstrap site and get the latest Bootstrap files onto your computer.
- Write a basic HTML template using these files.
- Once everything is set up, create a simple ‘container’ div inside <body> tag.
- Inside the ‘container’, create another div with class ‘row’ and as the name suggests, we are creating a row for handling columns. Populate the ‘row’ div with 5 divs with class ‘col’. Because Bootstrap 4.0+ grid system has now shifted to Flexbox, the columns will arrange by themselves into five equally sized DOM elements.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"> <link rel="stylesheet" href= <title>5 cols a row</title> <style> .row .col { height: 100px; background: green; } </style></head> <body> <div class="container px-5 py-5"> <div class="row"> <div class="col mx-1">1</div> <div class="col mx-1">2</div> <div class="col mx-1">3</div> <div class="col mx-1">4</div> <div class="col mx-1">5</div> </div> </div> <script src= </script> <script src= </script></body> </html> |
To distinguish between the columns, a small margin is added to each of the columns.
Output:
