Output scramble when number of records not divisible by number of columns about in_columns HOT 6 CLOSED

InColumns doesn't deal with DOM, CSS or form tags. What is the actual result returned by InColumns and what did you expect it to be?

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Been pondering this, and I think I might know what's happening.

Currently, InColumns returns columns distributed like

a   e   i
b   f   j
c   g
d   h

You probably want them distributed like

a   e   h
b   f   i
c   g   j
d

In the first distribution, DOM floating would cause 'd' to be floated next to 'g' and so forth, which would probably mess things up like you're seeing.

Can you confirm this?

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Looks like I misunderstood the usage of your library then :) Cause yes was looking at a way to use it directly with collection_check_boxes.
Thanks for having a look at my question anyhow

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InColumns is used with Arrays - what you do with the results is up to you. I cannot help you debug CSS and markup you've added around the results, but I can help you debug the actual results from the library.

I still think the issue you are seeing is the one I describe above, but I have no immediate way of verifying it as you have provided no output that shows what InColumns actually return.

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I have released a new version that uses an equal height distribution algorithm. I suspect it will make it possible to use InColumns for you needs, so please check it out.

Do note, though, that the API has changed a bit and you might need to reject nil values:

= f.collection_check_boxes :city_ids, InColumns.columnize(@cities, 3).flatten.compact, :id, :name

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Yep that's it :) Good job
Nice to see I contributed a bit: I can recognized enhanced parts of the code I posted on stackoverflow

Thanks!!

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