Added border as a parameter to st.columns with appropriate documentation

[utkanuygur]

Changes

Added a new border parameter to the st.columns function, similar to the functionality in the st.container function. This allows users to specify whether they want a border around the columns or not.

• Added a new border parameter to the st.columns function signature, with a default value of None.
• Inside the column_proto function, set col_proto.vertical.border to border or False. This ensures that if border is None, no border will be shown, and if border is True, a border will be shown around the columns.
• Updated the function docstring to include information about the new border parameter and provide example usage.

GitHub Issue Link #8547

Manual Testing

import streamlit as st

container = st.container(border=True)
container.write("This is inside the container")
st.write("This is outside the container")

container.write("This is inside too")
col1, col2 = st.columns(2, border=True)
col3, col4 = st.columns(2, border=False)

with col1:
    st.markdown("Content in column 1")

with col2:
    st.markdown("Content in column 2")

with col3:
    st.markdown("Col 3 has no border")

with col4:
    st.markdown("So does col 4")

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[jrieke]

This is great, thanks! Can you post a screenshot of how it looks like when the columns have content of different heights? Just want to see how the borders at the bottom align since that's something we probably have to think about. I'm on a conference today but will have a closer look in the next few days and also ping one of pur engs to review the code.

[utkanuygur]

This is great, thanks! Can you post a screenshot of how it looks like when the columns have content of different heights? Just want to see how the borders at the bottom align since that's something we probably have to think about. I'm on a conference today but will have a closer look in the next few days and also ping one of pur engs to review the code.

Thanks for reviewing my PR! I've just tested it, and the columns are aligned regardless.

import streamlit as st

container = st.container(border=True)
container.write("This is inside the container")
st.write("This is outside the container")

container.write("This is inside too")
col1, col2 = st.columns(2, border=True)
col3, col4 = st.columns(2, border=False)

with col1:
    st.markdown("""Content in column 1    
The content has multiple rows""")

with col2:
    st.markdown("Col 2 is aligned!")

with col3:
    st.markdown("Col 3 has no border")

with col4:
    st.markdown("So does col 4")

[utkanuygur]

@jrieke Hi! Any updates?

[LukasMasuch]

@utkanuygur Thanks for the contribution. Unfortunately, the way how this is implemented breaks other aspects of column. Thats also why the tests are failing. We would need to add a dedicated border property to the column proto instead of doing: col_proto.vertical.border = border or False, which would be a bit more work.

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