How can I make Bootstrap columns all the same heig

Question

I'm using Bootstrap. How can I make three columns all the same height?

Here is a screenshot of the problem. I would like the blue and red columns to be the same height as the yellow column.

Here is the code:

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-4 panel" style="background-color: red">
        some content
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-4 panel" style="background-color: yellow">
        catz
        <img width="100" height="100" src="https://lorempixel.com/100/100/cats/">
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-4 panel" style="background-color: blue">
        some more content
    </div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

.row-eq-height {
display: -webkit-box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display:         flex;
 }

From:

http://getbootstrap.com.vn/examples/equal-height-columns/equal-height-columns.css

Answer 2

cheeky jquery solution if anyone's interested. Just make sure all your cols (el) have a common classname...works responsively too if you bind it to $(window).resize

function equal_cols(el)
{
    var h = 0;
    $(el).each(function(){
        $(this).css({'height':'auto'});
        if($(this).outerHeight() > h)
        {
            h = $(this).outerHeight();
        }
    });
    $(el).each(function(){
        $(this).css({'height':h});
    });
}

Usage

$(document).ready(function(){
   equal_cols('.selector');
});

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Note: This post has been edited as per @Chris' comment out that the code was only set the last highest height in the $.each() function

Answer 3

here is my solution (compiled CSS):

.row.row-xs-eq {
  display: table;
  table-layout: fixed;
  margin: 0;
}

.row.row-xs-eq::before {
  content: none;
}

.row.row-xs-eq::after {
  content: none;
}

.row.row-xs-eq > [class^='col-'] {
  display: table-cell;
  float: none;
  padding: 0;
}

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .row.row-sm-eq {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    margin: 0;
  }

  .row.row-sm-eq::before {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-sm-eq::after {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-sm-eq > [class^='col-'] {
    display: table-cell;
    float: none;
    padding: 0;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 992px) {
  .row.row-md-eq {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    margin: 0;
  }

  .row.row-md-eq::before {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-md-eq::after {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-md-eq > [class^='col-'] {
    display: table-cell;
    float: none;
    padding: 0;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 1200px) {
  .row.row-lg-eq {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    margin: 0;
  }

  .row.row-lg-eq::before {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-lg-eq::after {
    content: none;
  }

  .row.row-lg-eq > [class^='col-'] {
    display: table-cell;
    float: none;
    padding: 0;
  }
}

So your code would look like:

<div class="row row-sm-eq">
  <!-- your old cols definition here -->
</div>

Basically this is the same system you use with .col-* classes with that difference you need to apply .row-* classes to the row itself.

With .row-sm-eq columns will be stacked on XS screens. If you don't need them to be stacked on any screens you can use .row-xs-eq.

The SASS version that we do actually use:

.row {
  @mixin row-eq-height {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    margin: 0;

    &::before {
      content: none;
    }

    &::after {
      content: none;
    }

    > [class^='col-'] {
      display: table-cell;
      float: none;
      padding: 0;
    }
  }

  &.row-xs-eq {
    @include row-eq-height;
  }

  @media (min-width: $screen-sm-min) {
    &.row-sm-eq {
      @include row-eq-height;
    }
  }

  @media (min-width: $screen-md-min) {
    &.row-md-eq {
      @include row-eq-height;
    }
  }

  @media (min-width: $screen-lg-min) {
    &.row-lg-eq {
      @include row-eq-height;
    }
  }
}

Live demo

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Note: mixing .col-xs-12 and .col-xs-6 inside a single row would not work properly.

Answer 4

You can use below code

var heights = $(".row > div").map(function() {
    return $(this).height();
}).get(),
maxHeight = Math.max.apply(null, heights);
$(".row > div").height(maxHeight);

Answer 5

You can use inline-flex as well which works pretty good and may be a little cleaner than modifying every row element with CSS.

For my project I wanted every row who's child elements had borders to be the same height so the borders would look jagged. For this I created a simple css class.

.row.borders{
    display: inline-flex;
    width: 100%;
}

Answer 6

I'm surprised I couldn't find a worthwhile solution here late 2018. I went ahead and figured it out a Bootstrap 3 solution myself using flexbox.

Clean and simple example:

HTML

<div class="row row-equal">
    <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-12 col-equal">
        <p>Text</p>
    </div>
    <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-12 col-equal">
        <img src="//placehold.it/200x200">
    </div>
    <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-12 col-equal">
        <p>Text</p>
    </div>  
</div>

CSS

img {
  width: 100%;
}
p {
  padding: 2em;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .row-equal {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
  }
  .col-equal {
    margin: auto;
  }
}

View working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/5kmtfrny/