I'm bumping this thread because I'm interested in hearing whether anyone
has come to any kind of conclusion regarding this issue. As Sherbrow
suggests; it looks like the changes necessary to support this feature would
be a bit of a nightmare to introduce and maintain unless they were adopted
within the philosophy of the framework.
Cheers,
Chris
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:28:40 PM UTC+1, Jethro wrote:
>
> I'm also wondering about this. We're thinking of using Bootstrap as a
> starting point for future projects, but usually like to have background
> color/images as an option. Definitely need the outer padding for anything
> other than white-on-white designs (no visible edges).
>
> - Was any conclusion made on best practices here?
>
> - When you say it could be a 'nightmare' with responsive layouts, how so?
>
>
> We would like to have the full power of flude/responsive layouts using
> default Bootstrap as much as possible, but the outer padding is usually a
> good idea to give the most flexibility in design.
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:34:17 PM UTC-7, Sherbrow wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Have you thought about a padding on the .container class ? a padding left
>> and right of the size of the gutter width ?
>>
>> You may even accomplish that with a bit of less code :
>>
>> .container { padding-left: @gridGutterWidth;padding-right: @gridGutterWidth;
>> }
>>
>>
>> But it really becomes a nightmare with responsive layouts ! And this is
>> the simplest solution I can think of.
>>
>> I would suggest that you do without the external gutters, or just set a
>> padding on the outermost element (of which you want the inner elements to
>> be separated from).
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:56:39 AM UTC+2, bongoman wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure:
>>>
>>> http://richardsandilands.com/bootstrap/
>>>
>>> So the container div has a background color, but the left most column is
>>> hard up against it. I'm wanting to introduce a gutter between the left edge
>>> of the first box and the container div AND on the right of the last box.
>>>
>>
