README
title: 'Layout' description: 'A set of utilities for layouting out a page or content on a page' lexiconDefinition: 'https://liferay.design/lexicon/foundations/grid/' packageNpm: '@clayui/layout'
import {LayoutContainer, LayoutContent} from '$packages/clay-layout/docs/index';
Container vs. Content
When deciding between using Container vs Content, the big picture is that you typically use Container for structuring page layouts and then you would use Content components for structuring content within the page layout.
Building Blocks
To provide basic building blocks for building layouts, we made Clay Layout very flexible with it's offerings of containers, rows and columns. All of these components allow for a custom HTML element to be used via the containerElement prop.
Container
Low-level component that serves as a wrapper of smaller building blocks like rows and columns. It is also used as a basis for a high-level variant ContainerFluid which is a Container without a fixed width.
Row and Col
These are self-explanatory, their purpose is to structure content inside them horizontally, or vertically. They are the next component in a typical DOM structure under a Container.
Rowcan be customized so that itsguttersare removed, and its content can bejustified.Col(column) has various sizing options, fromxs(extra small) toxl(extra large), as well as asizeprop that allows custom sizing to be provided.
ContentRow, ContentCol, and ContentSection
Small container components to be used as direct wrappers of your content. These elements are the lowest in the container structure while also serving layouting capabilities.