Primer’s layout includes basic page containers and a single-tiered, fraction-based grid system. That sounds more complicated than it really is though—it’s just containers, rows, and columns.
This repository is a module of the full primer-css repository.
This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install primer-layout
with this command.
$ npm install --save primer-layout
The source files included are written in Sass (scss
) You can simply point your sass include-path
at your node_modules
directory and import it like this.
@import "primer-layout/index.scss";
You can also import specific portions of the module by importing those partials from the /lib/
folder. Make sure you import any requirements along with the modules.
For a compiled css version of this module, a npm script is included that will output a css version to build/build.css
The built css file is also included in the npm package.
$ npm run build
Primer’s layout includes basic page containers and a single-tiered, fraction-based grid system. That sounds more complicated than it really is though—it’s just containers, rows, and columns.
You can find all the below styles in _layout.scss
.
Center your page’s contents with a .container
.
<div class="container">
<!-- contents here -->
</div>
The container applies width: 980px;
and uses horizontal margin
s to center it.
The grid is pretty standard—you create rows with .columns
and individual columns with a column class and fraction class. Here’s how it works:
.container
to encapsulate everything and provide ample horizontal gutter space.<div class="columns">
.<div class="column">
s..one-fourth
).In practice, your columns will look like the example below.
<div class="container">
<div class="columns mb-1">
<div class="one-fifth column block-blue p-3 border">
.one-fifth
</div>
<div class="four-fifths column block-blue p-3 border">
.four-fifths
</div>
</div>
<div class="columns mb-1">
<div class="one-fourth column block-blue p-3 border">
.one-fourth
</div>
<div class="three-fourths column block-blue p-3 border">
.three-fourths
</div>
</div>
<div class="columns mb-1">
<div class="one-third column block-blue p-3 border">
.one-third
</div>
<div class="two-thirds column block-blue p-3 border">
.two-thirds
</div>
</div>
<div class="columns">
<div class="one-half column block-blue p-3 border">
.one-half
</div>
<div class="one-half column block-blue p-3 border">
.one-half
</div>
</div>
</div>
Columns can be centered by adding .centered
to the .column
class.
<div class="columns">
<div class="one-half column centered block-blue p-3">
.one-half
</div>
</div>