In this article i am going to show how to design chessboard using css and little bit of javascript.
For this you need to have basic idea of CSS Flex-box and nth-child() property.
So let's get started...
We will add containerEven class as parent container for every even row and containerOdd for every odd row,
Below shows the CSS for the same
.containerEven>div:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: white;
}
.containerEven>div:nth-child(even) {
background-color: black;
}
.containerOdd>div:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: black;
}
.containerOdd>div:nth-child(even) {
background-color: white;
}
Here is the html part
<div class="parent-class">
<section class="containerEven" id='container1'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container2'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container3'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container4'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container5'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container6'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container7'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container8'></section>
</div>
Now what's left is using javascript to dynamically append element inside these section tags with the help of corresponding id.
var res1 = [], res2 = [], res3 = [], res4 = [], res5 = [], res6 = [], res7 = [], res8 = [];
for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
res1 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res2 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res3 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res4 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res5 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res6 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res7 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res8 += `<div class="item"></div>`
}
document.getElementById(`container1`).innerHTML = res1;
document.getElementById(`container2`).innerHTML = res2;
document.getElementById(`container3`).innerHTML = res3;
document.getElementById(`container4`).innerHTML = res4;
document.getElementById(`container5`).innerHTML = res5;
document.getElementById(`container6`).innerHTML = res6;
document.getElementById(`container7`).innerHTML = res7;
document.getElementById(`container8`).innerHTML = res8;
So here, what we are doing is we have taken 8 arrays to store each row data.Once we get the data we append it to corresponding container id,
Here is the complete code with output
<style>
.parent-class {
border: 5px chocolate groove;
}
.containerEven,
.containerOdd {
display: flex;
background-color: dodgerblue;
}
.item {
background-color: #f1f1f1;
padding: 20px;
font-size: 30px;
flex: 1;
height: 50px;
text-align: center;
}
.containerEven>div:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: white;
}
.containerEven>div:nth-child(even) {
background-color: black;
}
.containerOdd>div:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: black;
}
.containerOdd>div:nth-child(even) {
background-color: white;
}
</style>
<div class="parent-class">
<section class="containerEven" id='container1'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container2'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container3'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container4'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container5'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container6'></section>
<section class="containerEven" id='container7'></section>
<section class="containerOdd" id='container8'></section>
</div>
<script>
var res1 = [], res2 = [], res3 = [], res4 = [], res5 = [], res6 = [], res7 = [], res8 = [];
for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
res1 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res2 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res3 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res4 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res5 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res6 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res7 += `<div class="item"></div>`
res8 += `<div class="item"></div>`
}
document.getElementById(`container1`).innerHTML = res1;
document.getElementById(`container2`).innerHTML = res2;
document.getElementById(`container3`).innerHTML = res3;
document.getElementById(`container4`).innerHTML = res4;
document.getElementById(`container5`).innerHTML = res5;
document.getElementById(`container6`).innerHTML = res6;
document.getElementById(`container7`).innerHTML = res7;
document.getElementById(`container8`).innerHTML = res8;
</script>
Hope this helps you ..
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