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Intrinsic: Building a Responsive Layout
You just purchased Intrinsic from S4S and are going to build a killer layout!
But wait, that looks a lot more complicated than you thought it would!
I assure you it isn’t; Here’s a layout that I put together quickly to demonstrate how Intrinsic works…
We’re building for the modern web – right? So what did we learn just last week?
Mobile First!
Let’s build a project together…
Drag an Intrinsic stack into your stacks page and begin filling it with content.
In my project, I have a header stack — an image with a title and a menu bar. I added the image as a background image to a Sections Pro stack and the title in a Sections Box. The menu is below the sections box and I dropped the lot into an Intrinsic Grid Item. Problem number one! The Intrinsic stack already has a background colour defined. Two backgrounds won’t work. If you wish to see your Section, you’ll need to deactivate Intrinsic’s BG in the main stack!
Once that’s done, you’ll notice that Intrinsic also has 0.75rem padding on all sides. We want our banner image to be full width, so the padding will have to go!
Next up, in a Grid Item that I’ve given the ID h1, I’ve added a Grummage stack with a Header stack, and a 2 column Grummage containing paragraph stacks.
The Grummage stack reduces our Intrinsic content to the site width defined in the Foundation setup.
I’ve then added the following Grid Items and filled them : for paragraphs one to four with the IDs p1 — p4. For images i1 — i4. In the I Grid items I’ve added a text stack for the caption — set to align at the bottom of the Item and I’ve added a background image via the Fill Style dropdown.
Now comes the Grid Item for your footer.
The preview will still look chaotic because we haven’t added a layout yet!
'h1'
'p1'
'p2'
'p3'
'i1'
'i2'
'p4'
'i3'
'i4'
'footer'
The problem arises because we haven’t given the rows a height. That’s fine for the text content – ‘auto’ works just fine, however it doesn’t work for the image items which only contain a caption with a BG [image], but the BG height hasn't been defined..
We want our images to have a min height of 300px on mobile. The max height can be set to “auto”, so now we add FOUR instances of “minmax(300px,auto)”.
And Voila! We have a simple Mobile layout!
Our content is all in place, so all we need to do now is add a layout description for screens larger than 640px or 768 px (up to you).
We want the images spaced around the header ‘p4’, so In suggest you grab a piece of paper and draw the following:
The Header and the Grummage with the two columns should fill the layout width, so for them we add:
‘h1 h1 h1’
Now we add a new line:
For our four images and header, we just worked out on paper that we need :
'i3 p4 i2'
'i3 i4 i4'
‘footer footer footer’
This time we have fewer rows because p1,2 and 3 are displayed on the same row.
The images can be larger to, so this time we remove the ‘auto from the Grid Row Height and add:
And now you've come this far, you can define a layout for a third breakpoint.
Quickly sketch out on paper just how you'd like it! Have fun!
BTW – If you visit this page with what you’ve just learned, you’ll find a few more helpful tips.
I know, if you suffer from code phobia like me, it looks scary, but I assure you — after the work you just did, it isn’t!
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