Zen Grids is an intuitive, flexible grid system that leverages the natural source order of your content to make it easier to create fluid responsive designs. With an easy-to-use Sass mixin set, the Zen Grids system can be applied to an infinite number of layouts, including responsive, adaptive, fluid and fixed-width layouts.
Here's a simple example: a content column with a sidebar on each side, aligned to a 12 column grid.
@import "zen";
$zen-gutter-width: 40px; // Set the gutter size. A half-gutter is used on // each side of each column.
.container { @include zen-grid-container; // Define the container for your grid items. }
$zen-column-count: 12; // Set the number of grid columns to use in this media // query. You'll likely want a different grid for // different screen sizes.
@media all and (min-width: 50em) { .sidebar1 { @include zen-grid-item(3, 1); // Span 3 columns starting in 1st column } .content { @include zen-grid-item(6, 4); // Span 6 columns starting in 4th column } .sidebar2 { @include zen-grid-item(3, 10); // Span 3 columns starting in 10th column } }
Within the .container element, the .sidebar1, .sidebar2 and .content elements can be in any order.
Zen Grids has built-in support for the Box-sizing Polyfill which adds "box-sizing: border-box" support to IE7 and earlier.
- Download the polyfill at https://github.com/Schepp/box-sizing-polyfill
- Place the boxsizing.htc file in your website.
- Set Zen Grids' $box-sizing-polyfill-path variable to the absolute path to the boxsizing.htc file on your website. For example: $box-sizing-polyfill-path: "/scripts/polyfills/boxsizing.htc";
Zen grids is distributed as a Ruby Gem. On your computer, simply run:
sudo gem install zen-grids
If you are using Compass (and you should!) then you can add it to an existing project by editing the project's configuration file, config.rb, and adding this line:
require 'zen-grids'
You can then start using Zen Grids in your Sass files. Just add this line to one of your .sass or .scss files and start creating!
@import "zen";
- Sass 3.1 or later
- Compass 0.11 or later
Available under the GPL v2 license. See LICENSE.txt.