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locomotive-boilerplate/docs/grid.md
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Co-authored-by: Chauncey McAskill <chauncey@mcaskill.ca>
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# Grid system
* [Architectures](#architecture)
* [Build tasks](#build-tasks)
* [Configuration](#configuration)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [Example](#example)
## Architecture
The boilerplate's grid system is meant to be simple and easy to use. The goal is to create a light, flexible, and reusable way to build layouts.
The following styles are needed to work properly:
* [`o-grid`](../assets/styles/objects/_grid.scss) — Object file where the default grid styles are set such as column numbers, modifiers, and options.
* [`u-grid-columns`](../assets/styles/utilities/_grid-column.scss) — Utility file that generates the styles for every possible column based on an array of media queries and column numbers.
### Build tasks
The columns generated by [`u-grid-columns`](../assets/styles/utilities/_grid-column.scss) adds a lot of styles to the compiled CSS file. To mitigate that, [PurgeCSS] is integrated into the `styles` build task to purge unused CSS.
#### Configuration
Depending on your project, you will need to specify all the files that include CSS classes from the grid system. These files will be scanned by [PurgeCSS] to your compiled CSS files.
Example of a Charcoal project:
```jsonc
"purgeCSS": {
"content": [
"./views/app/template/**/*.mustache",
"./src/App/Template/*.php",
"./assets/scripts/**/*" // use case: `el.classList.add('u-gc-1/2')`
]
}
```
## Usage
The first step is to set intial SCSS values in the following files :
- [`settings/_config.scss`](../assets/styles/settings/_config.scss)
```scss
// Grid
// ==========================================================================
$base-column-nb: 12;
$base-column-gap: $unit-small;
```
You can create multiple column layouts depending on media queries.
- [`objects/_grid.scss`](../assets/styles/objects/_grid.scss)
```scss
.o-grid {
display: grid;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
// ==========================================================================
// Cols
// ==========================================================================
&.-col-#{$base-column-nb} {
grid-template-columns: repeat(#{$base-column-nb}, 1fr);
}
&.-col-4 {
grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
}
&.-col-#{$base-column-nb}\@from-medium {
@media (min-width: $from-medium) {
grid-template-columns: repeat(#{$base-column-nb}, 1fr);
}
}
// …
```
### Example
The following layout has 4 columns at `>=999px` and 12 columns at `<1000px`.
```html
<div class="o-container">
<h1 class="c-heading -h1">Hello</h1>
<div class="o-grid -col-4 -col-12@from-medium -gutters">
<div class="o-grid_item u-gc-1/8@from-medium">
<h2 class="c-heading -h2">This grid has 4 columns and 12 columns from `medium` MQ</h2>
</div>
<div class="o-grid_item u-gc-1/5@from-medium">
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Expedita provident distinctio deleniti eaque cumque doloremque aut quo dicta porro commodi, temporibus totam dolor autem tempore quasi ullam sed suscipit vero?</p>
</div>
<div class="o-grid_item u-gc-5/9@from-medium">
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Expedita provident distinctio deleniti eaque cumque doloremque aut quo dicta porro commodi, temporibus totam dolor autem tempore quasi ullam sed suscipit vero?</p>
</div>
<div class="o-grid_item u-gc-9/13@from-medium">
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Expedita provident distinctio deleniti eaque cumque doloremque aut quo dicta porro commodi, temporibus totam dolor autem tempore quasi ullam sed suscipit vero?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
[PurgeCSS]: https://purgecss.com/