Monday, 11 April 2011

YUI 3 Grids with HTML5

Here is a simple example of how to combine HTML5 layout tags with the YUI 3 Grid library (which is still in beta). It works cross-browser.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sharing data from the Facebook API</title>
<!--[if IE]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.3.0/build/cssgrids/grids-min.css" />
<style>
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
line-height:1.5em;
margin: auto; /* center in viewport */
     width: 960px;
}
nav
{
text-align:center;
}
nav a
{
float:right;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
}
section p, footer p, img, hgroup
{
margin:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body class="yui3-g">
<section class="yui3-u-1-2"></section>
<nav class="yui3-u-1-2">
<a href="#" class="yui3-u-1-5">home</a>
<a href="#" class="yui3-u-1-5">services</a>
<a href="#" class="yui3-u-1-5">portfolio</a>
<a href="#" class="yui3-u-1-5">contact</a>
</nav>
<header class="yui3-u-1">
<hgroup>
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<section class="yui3-u-1-2">
<p>Your image here</p>
</section>
<section class="yui3-u-1-2">
<p>Your text here</p>
</section>
<section class="yui3-u-1-3">
<p>Your text here</p>
</section>
<section class="yui3-u-1-3">
<p>Your text here</p>
</section>
<section class="yui3-u-1-3">
<p>Your text here</p>
</section>
<footer class="yui3-u-1"><p>Your text here</p></footer>
</body>
</html>

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Lauraine.
    I will start putting some more posts up.
    I'm thinking also some Social Media Strategy stuff too.

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  2. Nicely done.
    How do I get the footer to stick to the bottom of the page?

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