Need help with 3 column layout for iPhone design

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Danny, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I started designing a mobile version for my website. I have amde a start (THis looks hopeless unless you are viewing it through an iPhone, in which it looks perfect

    http://mobile.silvertails.net

    However on one of the pages I have a Ladder (this site is a sports site) at the moment I have it with just the team name and their points. I want to add an additional column in the middle for "Played" and I want it to be alligned nicely etc like the rest of the content.

    Below is the current HTML and CSS

    http://mobile.silvertails.net/ladder.php

    HTML
    
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    	<meta name="viewport" content="width = 320" />
    	<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
    	<title>Silvertails.net iPhone and Mobile Site</title>
    	<link rel="stylesheet" href="RoundRectangle.css" />
    </head>
    <body>	
    	 <!--Put your headings outside the <ul> tags -->
    	 <div class="danbar">
    	<h1>NRL Ladder - silvertails.net</h1>
    	<a class="button" href="http://mobile.silvertails.net">Home</a>
    	</div>
    	
    <div class="containdiv">	
    
    	<!-- Each <ul></ul> pairing represents a group of related options -->
    	<ul>	
    	<li><img src="logo.gif" border="0" width="280"></li>
    		<li>Team <span class="secondaryWLink">Points</span></li>
    		    <!-- The database line items -->
    			
    		<?php
    		echo $items;
    		?>
    		
    	</ul>
    	
    	<center>All content copyright silvertails.net 2004 - 2008  &copy;</center>
    </div>	
    </body>
    
    
    Code (markup):

    CSS
    
    /*
     
     File:RoundRectangle.css
     
     Abstract: CSS code for the RoundRectangle sample 
     
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     */ 
     
    
    body
    {
    	margin: 0;
    	padding: 0;
    	background-color: #5a1932;/*rgb(197,204,211);	*/ /* Set the page color to light blue */
    	-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;		  /* Turn off font resizing */
    }
    .containdiv
    {    
    	margin-left: 10px;
    }
    .danbar
    {
        background: url(toolbar.png) #6d84a2 repeat-x;
    	margin-left: 0px;
    	margin-bottom: 10px;
    }
    
    h1 
    {
    	margin:0;
    	padding-top:10px;		  
    	padding-right:10px;		 
    	padding-bottom:10px;	
    	padding-left:10px;
    	
    	font-size:17px;
    	font-family: Helvetica;
    	font-weight:bold;
    	color: rgb(76,86,108);	 /* Set each label color */		
    }
    
    h2 
    {
    	margin:0;
    	padding-top:10px;		  
    	padding-right:0px;		 
    	padding-bottom:10px;	
    	padding-left:0px;
    	
    	font-size:22px;
    	font-family: Helvetica;
    	font-weight:bold;
    	color: rgb(76,86,108);	 /* Set each label color */		
    }
    .button {
        position: absolute;
        overflow: hidden;
        top: 8px;
        right: 6px;
        margin: 0;
        border-width: 0 5px;
        padding: 0 3px;
        width: auto;
        height: 30px;
        line-height: 30px;
        font-family: inherit;
        font-size: 12px;
        font-weight: bold;
        color: #FFFFFF;
        text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 0px -1px 0;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
        text-decoration: none;
        white-space: nowrap;
        background: none;
        -webkit-border-image: url(toolButton.png) 0 5 0 5;
    }
    
    ul 
    {	   
    	padding: 0;	   
    	margin-top:0;
    	margin-right:10px;
    	margin-bottom:17px;		  /* Set each list 17 pixels from the top of the button bar(or the top of the next list) */
    	
    	font-size:17px;
    	font-family: Helvetica;
    	font-weight:bold;
    	color:black;
    	
    	width: 300px;
    	background-color: white;       /* Each list has a white background fill */
    	
    	border-width: 1px;		       /* Draw a rectangle around each list */
    	border-style:solid ;
    	border-color:rgb(217,217,217);
    	
    	-webkit-border-radius: 8px;		 /* Round each corner of the created rectangle */
    }
    
    
    li
    {	
    	list-style-type: none;	
    	
    	border-top-width:1px;	/* Create lines between cells. Each line is placed above each item */
    	border-top-style:solid;
    	border-top-color:rgb(217,217,217);
    
    	padding-top:10px;		  
    	padding-right:10px;		 
    	padding-bottom:14px;	 /* Indent the cell content 14 pixels from the bottom edge of a cell */
    	padding-left:10px;	
    }
    
    
    li:first-child 
    {
    	border-top:0;    /* Remove border above the first item of the list */
    }
    
    
    a  /* Handle the click/tap highlight. Highlight an entire cell with the iPhone grey background when tapped */ 
    {
    	display: block;   /* Sets the href to be a block rather than inline */
    	
    	/* The padding properties adjust the text content within the href block */
    	padding-top: 8px;
    	padding-right: 8px;
    	padding-bottom: 12px;
    	padding-left: 8px;
    	
    	/* The margin properties adjust the size of the href block	*/
    	margin-top: -8px;
    	margin-right: -8px;
    	margin-bottom: -12px;
    	margin-left: -8px;	 
    	
    	text-decoration: none;
    	color:black;
    }
    
    .bblock  /* Handle the click/tap highlight. Highlight an entire cell with the iPhone grey background when tapped */ 
    {
    	display: block;
    	font-weight:normal;		
    	width: 20px;	  
    	padding-right: 10px;  
    	position: absolute;
    	
    }
    
    .showArrow /*	Add an arrow button to a link */
    {  
    	margin-right:10px;		
    	padding-right:16px;	   /* Distance between the arrow button and a text */
    	
    	background-image: url(images/chevron.png); 
    	background-repeat: no-repeat;
    	background-position: right; 
    }
    
    
    .secondary	/* Used for secondary text (text that is less important) */
    {
    	font-weight:normal;		/* Regular font is used for secondary text */
    	float:right;		     /* Align secondary text to the right of its parent cell */
    	margin-right:10px;	  
    }
    
    
    
    .secondaryWArrow /* Used for secondary content that contains a link and a button */
    {
    	display:block;		 /* Set the secondary content to be a block	 */
    	font-weight:normal; 
    	float:right;
    	color: #324F85;		 /* sets the color of the link */
    }
    
    .secondaryWLink2 /* Used for secondary text that is a link */
    {
    	font-weight:normal;		
    	float:right;		  
    	margin-right:30px;	  
    	color: #EEEEEE;		 /* sets the color of the link */
    }
    
    
    .secondaryWLink /* Used for secondary text that is a link */
    {
    	font-weight:normal;		
    	float:right;		  
    	margin-right:10px;	  
    	color: #324F85;		 /* sets the color of the link */
    }
    
    Code (markup):
    Does anyone have an idea how I can achieve this?

    CHeers
    Dan
     
    Danny, Jul 21, 2008 IP
  2. kk5st

    kk5st Prominent Member

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    #2
    <li>
    <span class="secondaryWLink">Warriors</span>
    20
    </li>
    ============
    li {                         /*RoundRec...angle.css (line 144)*/
    border-top:1px solid #D9D9D9;
    list-style-type:none;
    overflow:hidden;
    padding:10px 10px 14px;
    text-align:right;
    }
    
    .secondaryWLink {    /*RoundRec...angle.css (line 231)*/
    color:#324F85;
    float:left;
    font-weight:normal;
    margin-right:10px;
    }
    Code (markup):
    The floated item must precede the static. Also, give the li its own block formatting context (the overflow property did that).

    cheers,

    gary
     
    kk5st, Jul 21, 2008 IP
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    kumbhdesign Banned

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    #3
    pm me with budget for prof. help
     
    kumbhdesign, Jul 22, 2008 IP
  4. Danny

    Danny Active Member

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    #4
    that's still 2 columns isnt it?
     
    Danny, Jul 22, 2008 IP
  5. kk5st

    kk5st Prominent Member

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    #5
    Yeah, but it showed the approach to take. See this test case:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    
    <html xml:lang="en"
          xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
          lang="en">
    <head>
      <title></title>
      <meta name="generator"
            content=
            "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org" />
      <meta http-equiv="content-type"
            content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
      <meta name="editor"
            content="Emacs 21" />
      <meta name="author"
            content="Gary Turner" />
      <style type="text/css">
    /*<![CDATA[*/
    
      ul {
        border: 2px solid #aaa;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        list-style: none;
        width: 280px;
        }
    
      li {
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
        overflow: hidden;
        padding: 1em 0;
        padding-left: 5px;
        }
    
      li:last-child {
        border: none;
        }
    
      li span.team {
        float: left;
        width: 45%;
        }
    
      li span.points {
        float: right;
        width: 10%;
        }
    
      /*]]>*/
      </style>
    </head>
    
    <body>
      <ul>
        <li><span class="team">bullfrogs</span><span class=
        "points">20</span>mayflies</li>
    
        <li><span class="team">bullfrogs</span><span class=
        "points">20</span>mayflies</li>
    
        <li><span class="team">bullfrogs</span><span class=
        "points">20</span>mayflies</li>
      </ul>
    </body>
    </html>
    Code (markup):
    You might want to consider a table for this. Either of list or table would be ok semantically and structurally, but I'd give table a slight edge. Use whichever works best for you.

    cheers,

    gary
     
    kk5st, Jul 22, 2008 IP