Pinterest Style Responsive Dynamic Grid System with Pure JavaScript – colm.js

colm.js is a lightweight & standalone JavaScript library that dynamically arrange a collection of elements into a responsive grid layout similar to Pinterest or Masonry.

How to use it:

Load the latest version of colm.js in your document.

<script src="build/colm.x.js"></script>

Create a column grid as follow. You can pass the options to the grid layout via HTML5 data-* attributes.

• data-colm-width=”160″: the width of the items
• data-colm-min-width=”140″: minimux width of the items
• data-colm-align-columns=”stretch”: left, right, center, justify, space or stretch
• data-colm-align-items=”stretch”: top, bottom, center, justify, space or stretch
• data-colm-place=”column”: force child items into a particular column. Use negative numbers for counting from the right.

<div 
  id="colm1"
  class="colm"
  data-colm-width="160"
  data-colm-min-width="140"
  data-colm-align-columns="stretch"
  data-colm-align-items="stretch"
>
  <article>
    <section>
      <h2>1</h2>
      Content 1
    </section>
  </article>
  <article>
    <section>
      <h2>2</h2>
      Content 2
    </section>
  </article>
  <article>
    <section>
      <h2>3</h2>
      Content 3
    </section>
  </article>
  ...
</div>
</div>

Advanced usage.

// Used to programmatically trigger layouting on the page. 
// This is automatically called on page load and resize.
colm()
// Add new children to a container. 
// Content can be a single element, an array or node list of elements or an HTML string.
colm.appendTo(selector,content)