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It’s basic css, but I just can’t get it right.
I’m building an e-commerce website, so I need many flexboxes to display the products. I’m also using bootstrap in my project.
This is my code:
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="row" style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3" style="cursor:pointer; transition: border .2s ease-in-out; margin:15px; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 4px; height:auto; box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.075);">
<img style="vertical-align: middle;" class="img-responsive" src="https://i.dell.com/das/xa.ashx/global-site-design%20web/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/1/LargePNG?id=Dell/Product_Images/Dell_Client_Products/Notebooks/Latitude_Notebooks/12_7275/global_spi/notebook-latitude-12-7275-black-left-windows-hero-504x350.psd"
alt="...">
<div>
<h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" class="text-center">Laptop Dell XPS 9250 12.5" (m56Y57/8GB/256GB/ HD)</h4>
</div>
<div class="text-center" style="margin-top:auto;">
<span style="color:yellow;background-color:red;font-size:18px;">-67% OFF NOW!</span>
</div>
<div>
<h5 class="text-center" style="margin-right:5px; font-size:18px;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color:black; font-size:22px;"><span style="color:red; font-size:20px">$2499.99</span></span> $1499.99</h5>
</div>
<div class="text-center" style="margin-top:auto;">
<button class="btn btn-success add_to_cart" style="margin-bottom:5px;">Add to cart</button>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3" style="cursor:pointer; transition: border .2s ease-in-out; margin:15px; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 4px; height:auto; box-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.075);">
<img style="vertical-align: middle;" class="img-responsive" src="https://external.webstorage.gr/Product-Images/1312102/quest-slimbook-convertible-1000-1312102.jpg" alt="...">
<div>
<h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" class="text-center">Laptop Quest Slimbook 360 Convertible - 13.3" (Celeron N3350/4GB/32GB/HD)</h4>
</div>
<div class="text-center" style="margin-top:auto;">
<span style="color:yellow;background-color:red;font-size:18px;">-40% OFF NOW!</span>
</div>
<div>
<h5 class="text-center" style="margin-right:5px; font-size:18px;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color:black; font-size:22px;"><span style="color:red; font-size:20px">$349</span></span> $249</h5>
</div>
<div class="text-center">
<button class="btn btn-success add_to_cart" style="margin-bottom:5px;">Add to cart</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>And this is how it looks like:
I want the “-67% off” and all the elements below it in the first flexbox to match the same elements height in the second flexbox. As you can see, I am already using style="margin-top:auto;" in the divs that contain the offers(67% OFF NOW & 40% OFF NOW), but it doesn’t align at the bottom.
And this is how I want it to look:
What is more, when viewing this code in mobile or by making the browser window smaller the three divs are aligned at the bottom successfully.
What am I missing?
2
Answers
There are two ways to go about it.
The general way
Wrap the image product and title in a wrapper with
min-height. Obviously, themin-heightshould be sufficient for the tallest of them.The specific way
This is generally better because instead of hard-coding a
min-widthof all products on the page, it simply makes them adjusts to the height of the tallest in the row. You still need a wrapper around the image and product title but, instead of themin-height, you give the entire product… and give the said wrapper
flex-grow: 1. This will make all products in the row grow to match the tallest and the extra height is given to the only child element withflex-grow: 1(which is your wrapper).Working example:
you can make each box a flex container too and remove
margin:autoto the button, you may add a min-height to h5 if prices have to wrap on 2 lines.