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I am a HTML / CSS newbie.
I need to do something like this:
My web page is receiving sequences of events dynamically and I would like to visualize them on in the page.
I would like one sequence of events to be in a box, with lots of slots, and each slot has the event id.
So if I have several sequences, then I will have several such boxes.
However, the length of a sequence is dynamic. And the web page's window might be adjusted by the users, so even for a sequence, if it is too long or the window is too narrow, I have to break the box into several lines.
the above is my drawing of the design.
The A, B, etc, are the sequence title, then the numbers are the ids.
ideally, the space of all events / sequences should be as compact as possible.
And if a box has to change line, then it should be half-borded to indicate the continuous.
How can I do that? using CSS 3?
And also the framework I am using is AngularJS to control the data / UI binding, even if I manage to handle this case, how to dynamically bind the data to adjust this requirement?
Thanks

Answer 1

Doing this in CSS is tricky, because you want a border between elements only if those elements are on the same line. CSS doesn't know anything about wrapping.
I've solved the problem by:
Adding a left border on all boxes
Adding a right border on the last box only.
Adding a -1px left margin on all boxes except the first.
Placing the boxes in a container with overflow: hidden.
Having the right border on the last box only solves the right-hand issue.
The -1px left margin solves the left-hand issue.
Snippet:
.sequences {
overflow: hidden;
}
.sequence > div {
border: 1px solid black;
border-right: none;
height: 50px;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.sequence > div:last-of-type {
border-right: 1px solid black;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.sequence > div:not(:first-of-type) {
margin-left: -1px;
}
.yellow div {background: yellow; width: 100px;}
.green div {background: lightgreen; width: 80px;}
.blue div {background: lightblue; width: 120px;}
<div class="sequences">
<div class="sequence yellow">
<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
</div>
<div class="sequence green">
<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
</div>
<div class="sequence blue">
<div></div><div></div><div></div>
<div></div><div></div><div></div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

You can solve this using CSS by doing something like this.
I've given each sequence element a top, left and bottom border. T
This will give the illusion of a right border when the elements are floated next to eachother but when they're the last on that line it will brake of as per your request.
I also added a right border to the last div element and the last div in each section.
Fiddle
div{
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
text-align: center;
float:left;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #000;
border-width: 1px 0 1px 1px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
div.last{margin-right: 5px;}
div.last,
div:last-child{border-right-width: 1px;}
<div class="seq-1">1</div>
<div class="seq-1">2</div>
<div class="seq-1">3</div>
<div class="seq-1">4</div>
<div class="seq-1 last">5</div>
<div class="seq-2">1</div>
<div class="seq-2">2</div>
<div class="seq-2 last">3</div>
Edit:
I just noticed you wan't the border to be 0px/blank on the last element and the first element each row. Now that is a bit trickier.
I'm not positive there's a good solution to solving that using css since your sequences seem to be dynamic.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you need to use javascript to manage this.
Edit 2: CSS and JQuery solution
I made a quick jquery solution that utilies my previously provided CSS code.
The jQuery script removes the left border if the elements left offset(within it's parent) is 0 and if the element is not the first element in each sequenc(first class added).
Fiddle
var containerOffset = $('.container').offset().left;
setBorderWidth();
$(window).resize(function(){
setBorderWidth();
});
function setBorderWidth(){
$('.block').each(function() {
var childOffset = $(this).offset().left;
if(childOffset - containerOffset == 0 && !$(this).hasClass('first'))
$(this).css("border-left-width", "0px");
else
$(this).css("border-left-width", "1px");
});
}
.container{width: 100%;}
.block{
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
text-align: center;
float:left;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #000;
border-width: 1px 0 1px 1px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.block.last{margin-right: 5px;}
.block.last,
.block:last-child{border-right-width: 1px;}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
<div class="seq-1 block first">1</div>
<div class="seq-1 block">2</div>
<div class="seq-1 block">3</div>
<div class="seq-1 block">4</div>
<div class="seq-1 block last">5</div>
<div class="seq-2 block first">1</div>
<div class="seq-2 block">2</div>
<div class="seq-2 block last">3</div>
</div>

Answer 3

What I would recommend is to have 3 CSS classes
1) beginning of sequence
2) middle of sequence
3) end of sequence
then display different borders using:
.beginning-of-seq {
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
}
for instance.
about the angular part just use ng-repeat="seq in sequences" for instance and then render the sequence with the classes you created so it will look good (of course you need the scope to have the sequences)
<span ng-repeat="seq in sequences">
<span class="beginning-of-seq"> {{seq.title}} </span>
<span class="middle-of-seq ng-repeat="elem in seq.otherElements">{{elem}}</span>
<span class="end-of-seq"> {{seq.lastElem}} </span>
</span>
</span>
this is a bit crude and i don't know how you implemented it but it should give you an idea where to start

Answer 4

This HTML/CSS should do the trick. As you mentioned about the user having different resolutions, I've used percentages for the widths (depending on your scenario, media queries may be needed).
.container {
width: 30%; /*Change this to fit your design*/
}
.seq {
display: inline;
border: 0.1em solid #000;
margin-right: 1em;
}
.seq .item {
display: inline-block;
width: 5%; /*Change this to fit your design*/
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
.seq .item:not(:last-child) {
border-right: 0.1em solid #000;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="seq">
<div class="item item-title">A</div>
<div class="item">1</div>
<div class="item">2</div>
<div class="item">3</div>
</div>
<div class="seq">
<div class="item item-title">B</div>
<div class="item">4</div>
<div class="item">5</div>
</div>
<div class="seq">
<div class="item item-title">C</div>
<div class="item">1</div>
<div class="item">2</div>
<div class="item">3</div>
<div class="item">4</div>
<div class="item">5</div>
<div class="item">6</div>
</div>
<div class="seq">
<div class="item item-title">D</div>
<div class="item">1</div>
<div class="item">2</div>
<div class="item">3</div>
<div class="item">4</div>
<div class="item">5</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 5

About the AngularJS binding:
In your controller define your array of sequences and some functions to manipulate the sequences:
$scope.sequences = [];
$scope.addSequence = function(sequenceName){
var newSequence = { name : sequenceName, events: [] };
$scope.sequences.push(newSequence);
};
$scope.addEventToSequence = function(sequenceName, event){
var sequence = getSequence(sequenceName); // write this function to get the right sequence from the array
sequence.events.push(event);
}
Now in your html loop over the sequences and events using ng-repeat
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="sequence in sequences">
<ul>
<li>{{sequence.name}}</li>
<li ng-repeat="event in sequence.event">{{event.name}}</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>