Bootstrap Gutter Columns

Recently i had a need to have a default grid in bootstrap but also on the homepage i needed to have 4 boxes that butted right up against each other.

Bootstrap gutter columns.

Bootstrap divides a row into 12 columns. Columns take your design and divide it into vertical groups making it responsive. In the example below we use three col elements which gets a width of 33 33 each. If you do not want to use all 12 column individually you can group the columns together to create wider columns.

Columns have horizontal padding to create the gutters between individual columns however you can remove the margin from rows and padding from columns with no gutters on the row. Bootstrap is a popular ui library for any javascript apps. This is a tutorial on how to add a border to the column gutter for the bootstrap grid system. I came up with a handy no gutters class which has some pretty basic css that you apply to your row tag holding your columns.

Bootstrap 5 is in alpha when this is written and it s subject to change. The resulting grid gutter width 2 on both sides of the grid will be hide with a negative margin of 15px. To make the grid responsive there are five grid breakpoints one for each responsive breakpoint. In this article we ll look at how to reorder columns and add gutters with bootstrap 5.

In the case of the sm grid your container class will 970px 940px grid gutter width. Now here s our code for the no gutters class. The gutters add 15px on each side of the column. This is a typical html markup for a grid with three columns.

The margin between each column is set in the gridgutterwidth variable in the variables less file. Every column get a width of 940 12. Three equal columns use the col class on a specified number of elements and bootstrap will recognize how many elements there are and create equal width columns. When they are created gutters are also created.

Every column have a padding of 15 px on both sides. Which makes a gutter between of 30 px. No comments on bootstrap 5 ordering columns and gutters. Though you should be able to get the desired effect by setting the background on inner boxes.

All breakpoints extra small small medium large and extra large. Bootstrap s grid system allows up to 12 columns across the page. Bootstrap 3 switched to using padding for the gutters rather than margins so the content is parted but the boxes aren t.