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Fletch
Fletch

Reputation: 480

CSS have each grid element a different height

I have a grid with three columns and the height changes to fit all the text.

.main .contentWrapper {
    height:60%;
    margin-top:5%;
    display:grid;
    grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr 1fr;
    grid-gap:10px;
    /*grid-template-rows: auto;*/
    height:auto;
}

.main .contentWrapper .box .boxText {
    padding:15px;
    height:25%;
    text-align:center;
    margin:0;
}

img {
    object-fit:cover;
    width:100%;
    height:400px;
    margin:0;
}

How can I make it so each box resizes to fit its own text, and they're not all the same height? As it is the first two columns resize to fit the largest piece of text which is in the third column.

box layout

Upvotes: 10

Views: 16865

Answers (2)

kukkuz
kukkuz

Reputation: 42352

The default value of property align-items for a grid container is stretch which means each grid item will extend to the height of the grid row (to the largest item in the row if height is not set using grid-template-rows).

To change this you can just add align-items: flex-start to the grid container (.contentWrapper) - see demo below:

body {
  background: #ddd;
}

.contentWrapper {
  height: 60%;
  margin-top: 5%;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
  grid-gap: 10px;
  /*grid-template-rows: auto;*/
  height: auto;
  align-items: flex-start; /* ADDED */
}

.contentWrapper .box .boxText {
  padding: 15px;
  height: 25%;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

.box {
  background: #fff;
}

img {
  object-fit: cover;
  width: 100%;
  height: 400px;
  margin: 0;
}
<div class="contentWrapper">
  <div class="box">
    <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/400" />
    <div class="boxText">Some text here</div>
  </div>
  <div class="box">
    <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/400" />
    <div class="boxText">Some text here Some text here Some text here </div>
  </div>
  <div class="box">
    <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/400" />
    <div class="boxText">Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text
      here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here Some text here </div>
  </div>
</div>

Upvotes: 27

Andy Hoffman
Andy Hoffman

Reputation: 19109

The way I solved this was to add margin-bottom: auto to each .contentWrapper .box. This pushed the text flush to the image and fit each cell to its content.

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.main .contentWrapper {
  height: 60%;
  margin-top: 5%;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
  grid-gap: 10px;
  /*grid-template-rows: auto;*/
  height: auto;
}

.main .contentWrapper .box {
  background-color: #eee;
  margin-bottom: auto;
}

.main .contentWrapper .box .boxText {
  padding: 15px;
  height: 25%;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

img {
  object-fit: cover;
  width: 100%;
  height: 400px;
  margin: 0;
}
<div class="main">
  <div class="contentWrapper">
    <div class="box">
      <img src="http://placekitten.com/200/200" alt="">
      <div class="boxText">text text text text</div>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <img src="http://placekitten.com/200/200" alt="">
      <div class="boxText">text text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text text</div>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <img src="http://placekitten.com/200/200" alt="">
      <div class="boxText">text text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text texttext text text text</div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

jsFiddle

Upvotes: 1

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