Suppose you have a two-column layout using Twitter Bootstrap, in which you want to have specific rows vertically aligned with each other:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<h2>Column 1</h2>
<p>Optional content of variable height.</p>
<p><strong>Align this vertically...</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<h2>Column 2</h2>
<p><strong>...with this</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Vertical alignment is feasible with table layouts, however, sizing and responsive behaviour of Bootstrap's columns is lost:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<div class="container">
<table class="row">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col"><h2>Column 1</h2></th>
<th scope="col"><h2>Column 2</h2></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>Optional content of variable height.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Align this vertically...</strong></td>
<td><strong>...with this</strong></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
Another option is to split rows, however, the layout folds in wrong order on smaller resolutions.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<h2>Column 1</h2>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<h2>Column 2</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<p>Optional content of variable height.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<strong>Align this vertically...</strong>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<strong>...with this</strong>
</div>
</div>
</div>
How do you achieve the same result while still maintaining the behaviour of Bootstrap's columns? Is using table layout the way to go or is it a dead-end? Is it otherwise possible without resorting to JavaScript to position a row to a computed offset?
EDIT: I aim to have the top of the rows aligned as is the case in the table layout.