Bootstrap 4 card-deck with number of columns based

Question

I'm trying to implement the card-deck feature in bootstrap 4 to make all of my cards the same height.

The examples that bootstrap provides show 4 nice cards, but it's 4 cards on the row, no matter the viewport. See the codeply here.

This doesn't make sense to me since, I would assume, that you'd want a minimum size for your card to shrink to in order for your content to still look good.

I then tried adding in some viewport classes to break on screen sizes, but as soon as that div gets added, the card-deck doesn't apply anymore, thus not making the cards equal height.

How can I get this accomplished? Is this a missing feature that will be addressed in the full release of Bootstrap 4?

Here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/crrm5q9m/

<div class="card-deck-wrapper">
  <div class="card-deck">
    <div class="card card-inverse card-success text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>It's really good news that the new Bootstrap 4 now has support for CSS 3 flexbox.</p>
          <footer>Makes flexible layouts <cite title="Source Title">Faster</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-danger text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>The Bootstrap 3.x element that was called "Panel" before, is now called a "Card".</p>
          <footer>All of this makes more <cite title="Source Title">Sense</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-warning text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>There are also some interesting new text classes for uppercase and capitalize.</p>
          <footer>These handy utilities make it <cite title="Source Title">Easy</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-info text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>If you want to use cool icons in Bootstrap 4, you'll have to find your own such as Font Awesome or Ionicons.</p>
          <footer>The Glyphicons are not <cite title="Source Title">Included</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
        <div class="card card-inverse card-success text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>It's really good news that the new Bootstrap 4 now has support for CSS 3 flexbox.</p>
          <footer>Makes flexible layouts <cite title="Source Title">Faster</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-danger text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>The Bootstrap 3.x element that was called "Panel" before, is now called a "Card".</p>
          <footer>All of this makes more <cite title="Source Title">Sense</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-warning text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>There are also some interesting new text classes for uppercase and capitalize.</p>
          <footer>These handy utilities make it <cite title="Source Title">Easy</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-info text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>If you want to use cool icons in Bootstrap 4, you'll have to find your own such as Font Awesome or Ionicons.</p>
          <footer>The Glyphicons are not <cite title="Source Title">Included</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

This answer is for those who are using Bootstrap 4.1+ and for those who care about IE 11 as well

Card-deck does not adapt the number visible of cards according to the viewport size.

Above methods work but do not support IE. With the below method, you can achieve similar functionality and responsive cards.

You can manage the number of cards to show/hide in different breakpoints.

In Bootstrap 4.1+ columns are same height by default, just make sure your card/content uses all available space. Run the snippet, you'll understand

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4 mb-3">
            <div class="card mb-3 h-100">

                <div class="card-body">
                    <h5 class="card-title">Card title</h5>
                    <p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
                    <p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4 mb-3">
            <div class="card mb-3 h-100">
                <div class="card-body">
                    <h5 class="card-title">Card title</h5>
                    <p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
                    <p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4 mb-3">
            <div class="card mb-3 h-100">
                <div class="card-body">
                    <h5 class="card-title">Card title</h5>
                    <p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
                    <p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 2

Here's a solution with Sass to configure the number of cards per line depending on breakpoints: https://codepen.io/migli/pen/OQVRMw

It works fine with Bootstrap 4 beta 3

// Bootstrap 4 breakpoints & gutter
$grid-breakpoints: (
    xs: 0,
    sm: 576px,
    md: 768px,
    lg: 992px,
    xl: 1200px
) !default;

$grid-gutter-width: 30px !default;

// number of cards per line for each breakpoint
$cards-per-line: (
    xs: 1,
    sm: 2,
    md: 3,
    lg: 4,
    xl: 5
);

@each $name, $breakpoint in $grid-breakpoints {
    @media (min-width: $breakpoint) {
        .card-deck .card {
            flex: 0 0 calc(#{100/map-get($cards-per-line, $name)}% - #{$grid-gutter-width});
        }
    }
}

EDIT (2019/10)

I worked on another solution which uses horizontal lists group + flex utilities instead of card-deck:

https://codepen.io/migli/pen/gOOmYLb

It's an easy solution to organize any kind of elements into responsive grid

<div class="container">
    <ul class="list-group list-group-horizontal align-items-stretch flex-wrap">
        <li class="list-group-item">Cras justo odio</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">Dapibus ac facilisis in</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">Morbi leo risus</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">Cras justo odio</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">Dapibus ac facilisis in</li>
        <!--= add as many items as you need  =-->
    </ul>
</div>

.list-group-item {
    width: 95%;
    margin: 1% !important;
}

@media (min-width: 576px) {
    .list-group-item {
        width: 47%;
        margin: 5px 1.5% !important;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 768px) {
    .list-group-item {
        width: 31.333%;
        margin: 5px 1% !important;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 992px) {
    .list-group-item {
        width: 23%;
        margin: 5px 1% !important;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 1200px) {
    .list-group-item {
        width: 19%;
        margin: 5px .5% !important;
    }
}

Answer 3

It took me a bit to figure this out, but the answer is to not use a card-deck, but instead to use .row and .cols.

This makes a responsive set of cards with specifics for each screen size: 3 cards for xl, 2 for lg and md, and 1 for sm and xs. .my-3 puts a padding on top and bottom so they look nice.

mixin postList(stuff)
  .row
    - site.posts.each(function(post, index){
      .col-sm-12.col-md-6.col-lg-6.col-xl-4
        .card.my-3
          img.card-img-top(src="...",  alt="Card image cap")
          .card-body
            h5.card-title Card title #{index}
            p.card-text Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the cards content.
            a.btn.btn-primary(href="#") Go somewhere
    - })

Answer 4

Define columns by min width based on viewport:

    /* Number of Cards by Row based on Viewport */
    @media (min-width: 576px) {
        .card-deck .card {
            min-width: 50.1%; /* 1 Column */
            margin-bottom: 12px;
        }
    }

    @media (min-width: 768px) {
        .card-deck .card {
            min-width: 33.4%;  /* 2 Columns */
        }
    }

    @media (min-width: 992px) {
        .card-deck .card {
            min-width: 25.1%;  /* 3 Columns */
        }
    }

    @media (min-width: 1200px) {
        .card-deck .card {
            min-width: 20.1%;  /* 4 Columns */
        }
    }

Answer 5

Updated 2018

If you want a responsive card-deck, use the visibility utils to force a wrap every X columns on different viewport width(breakpoints)...

Bootstrap 4 responsive card-deck (v 4.1)

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Original answer for Bootstrap 4 alpha 2:

You can use the grid col-*-* to get the different widths (instead of card-deck) and then set equal height to the cols using flexbox.

.row > div[class*='col-'] {
  display: flex;
  flex:1 0 auto;
}

http://codeply.com/go/O0KdSG2YX2 (alpha 2)

The problem is that w/o flexbox enabled the card-deck uses table-cell where it becomes very hard to control the width. As of Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6, flexbox is default so the additional CSS is not required for flexbox, and the h-100 class can be used to make the cards full height: http://www.codeply.com/go/gnOzxd4Spk

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