8 Column Responsive Website Layouts

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These layouts all use the Responsive Columns layout system.

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8 Fixed Columns With Equal-Width & Equal-Height

In this eight-column layout, the columns stay side-by-side even on small mobile screens.

The HTML

<r-c join>
    <c1-8 class="red">
        <!-- 1 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="orange">
        <!-- 2 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="yellow">
        <!-- 3 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="green">
        <!-- 4 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="aqua">
        <!-- 5 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="blue">
        <!-- 6 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="purple">
        <!-- 7 -->
    </c1-8>
    <c1-8 class="pink">
        <!-- 8 -->
    </c1-8>
</r-c>

We add the 'join' attribute to remove all gutters, join the columns together, and add padding. Learn more about gutter mode and join mode in the documentation.

The CSS

.red {
    background:#f97171;
}
.orange {
    background:#f99e50;
}
.yellow {
    background:#f5d55f;
}
.green {
    background:#c5ed77;
}
.aqua {
    background:#72f1d4;
}
.blue {
    background:#72c2f1;
}
.purple {
    background:#987ded;
}
.pink {
    background:#dc7ded;
}

We only need CSS for the background colors, all the structural CSS is handled by the Responsive Columns system.

8 Responsive Columns With Equal-Width & Equal-Height

In this eight-column layout, the columns are stacked on mobile, two columns wide on tablet portrait, three columns wide on tablet landscape, four columns wide on desktop.

The HTML

<r-c join sm1-2 md1-3 lg1-4>
    <c1-1 class="red">
        <!-- 1 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="orange">
        <!-- 2 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="yellow">
        <!-- 3 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="green">
        <!-- 4 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="aqua">
        <!-- 5 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="blue">
        <!-- 6 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="purple">
        <!-- 7 -->
    </c1-1>
    <c1-1 class="pink">
        <!-- 8 -->
    </c1-1>
</r-c>

Add as many columns as you like and they will follow the same number of columns per breakpoint.

The CSS

.red {
    background:#f97171;
}
.orange {
    background:#f99e50;
}
.yellow {
    background:#f5d55f;
}
.green {
    background:#c5ed77;
}
.blue {
    background:#72c2f1;
}
.purple {
    background:#987ded;
}
.pink {
    background:#dc7ded;
}

8 Column Layout With Semantic HTML5 Tags

This eight-column layout uses semantic HTML5 tags. The columns stack on mobile, are two wide on tablet portrait, three columns wide on tablet landscape, and four columns wide on desktop.

The HTML

<article data-r-c data-join data-sm1-2 data-md1-3 data-lg1-4>
    <section class="red">
        <!-- 1 -->
    </section>
    <section class="orange">
        <!-- 2 -->
    </section>
    <section class="yellow">
        <!-- 3 -->
    </section>
    <section class="green">
        <!-- 4 -->
    </section>
    <section class="aqua">
        <!-- 5 -->
    </section>
    <section class="blue">
        <!-- 6 -->
    </section>
    <section class="purple">
        <!-- 7 -->
    </section>
    <section class="pink">
        <!-- 8 -->
    </section>
</article>

The Responsive Columns system is compatible with semantic tags. Full details here: How to use semantic HTML tags with responsive columns.

The CSS

.red {
    background:#f97171;
}
.orange {
    background:#f99e50;
}
.yellow {
    background:#f5d55f;
}
.green {
    background:#c5ed77;
}
.aqua {
    background:#72f1d4;
}
.blue {
    background:#72c2f1;
}
.purple {
    background:#987ded;
}
.pink {
    background:#dc7ded;
}

Need to support old browsers?

If you need to achieve 8 equal-height columns in old browsers that don't support flexbox CSS (back to IE 5.5), you can use my nested equal-height columns method.