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The Body component can be used to create a centered layout to add your content. This should be added to the body element in the markup.
The vf-body layout should be added to the body element in your mark up and therefore should only be added once.
This layout component sets a maximum width to the 'page' and centers it. The maximum width of the page is set as a default to 80em or 1280px but can be changed using the CSS custom property --vf-body-width if needed. As the web is, by default, a fluid medium the vf-body needs to give some inline spacing when the browswer viewport is smaller than 1280px like on a tablet or mobile device. This is made possible using padding: 0 1em which is the same as padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em.
✅ <body class="vf-body | vf-stack vf-stack--400">...</body>
❌ <body> <div class="my-app | vf-body"> ... </div> </body>
.vf-body {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 80em;
max-width: var(--vf-body-width, 80em);
padding: 0 1em;
}
This is for example purposes only. Please use the vf-body class on the body element only.
Depending on your environment you'll want to use render or include. As a rule of thumb: server-side use include, precompiled browser use render. If you're using vf-eleventy you should use include.
includeYou'll need to pass a context object from your code or Yaml file (example), as well as the path to the Nunjucks template. Nunjucks' include is an abstraction of render and provides some additional portability.
{% set context fromYourYamlFile %}
- or -
{% set context = {
"component-type": "layout"
}
%}
{% include "../path_to/vf-body/vf-body.njk" %}
renderThis approach is best for bare-bones Nunjucks environments, such as precompiled templates with the Nunjucks slim runtime where include is not be available.
{% render '@vf-body', {
"component-type": "layout"
} %}
<div class="vf-body">
<div class="vf-box vf-box--normal vf-box-theme--primary">
<p class="vf-ui-color--white vf-u-margin--0 vf-u-type__text-body--2">This is for example purposes only. Please use the <code>vf-body</code> class on the <code>body</code> element only.</p>
</div>
</div>
This component is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install the vf-body with this command.
$ yarn add --dev @visual-framework/vf-body
The source files included are written in Sass(scss). You can point your Sass include-path at your node_modules directory and import it like this.
@import "@visual-framework/vf-body/index.scss";
Make sure you import Sass requirements along with the modules. You can use a project boilerplate or the vf-sass-starter
box-sizing: border-box;vf-body is (for some reason) nested inside another vf-body
File system location: components/vf-body
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