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Bootstrap 4: Why isn't this aligned to the bottom?

I have a card and in it is an image then a header. Then, I want to have a paragraph and link all of the way at the bottom of the card. I defined a min-height in CSS to make room to do so. However, the following code just flows top to bottom with space at the bottom instead of content there.

            <div class="col-lg-4">
                <div class="card shadow">
                    <img class="card-img-top" src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/1600x900?house" alt="Card image cap">
                    <div class="card-body">
                        <h5 class="card-title text-center">47 Dream Homes You'll Wish You Could Afford</h5>
                        <div class="text-center d-block align-items-end">
                            <p class="card-text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione!.</p>
                            <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Go somewhere</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

Here is what it looks like and I want the lorem ipsum and button to be right up against the bottom with the headline at the top.

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Solution

  • Let me suggest an alternative solution; one that would not require additional CSS and instead rely on Bootstrap's existing framework. The .card-footer class is part of the Card component and can integrate very well with your desired results.

    To achieve equal heights you could rely either on .card-deck or simply applying the .h100 class to the .card wrapper. Since it's unclear how you might be applying this design to multiple cards the below example relies on .h100:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<div class="container-fluid">
  <div class="row">
  
    <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4">
      <div class="card h-100 shadow">
        <img class="card-img-top" src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/1600x900?house" alt="Card image cap">
        <div class="card-body">
          <h5 class="card-title text-center">47 Dream Homes You'll Wish You Could Afford</h5>
        </div>

        <div class="card-footer bg-white border-top-0 text-center">
          <p class="card-text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione!.</p>
          <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Go somewhere</a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4">
      <div class="card h-100 shadow">
        <img class="card-img-top" src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/1600x900?house" alt="Card image cap">
        <div class="card-body">
          <h5 class="card-title text-center">47 Dream Homes You'll Wish You Could Afford</h5>
        </div>

        <div class="card-footer bg-white border-top-0 text-center">
          <p class="card-text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione!</p>
          <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Go somewhere</a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
       
    <div class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4">
      <div class="card h-100 shadow">
        <img class="card-img-top" src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/1600x900?house" alt="Card image cap">
        <div class="card-body">
          <h5 class="card-title text-center">47 Dream Homes You'll Wish You Could Afford</h5>
        </div>

        <div class="card-footer bg-white border-top-0 text-center">
          <p class="card-text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eos odio possimus labore ratione!</p>
          <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Go somewhere</a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

  </div>
</div>

    Now by default .card-footer applies a top border as well as a slightly darker background. We can override those styles by applying .bg-white to modify the background color and .border-top-0 to remove the top border. There is no reason to declare it a block element and centering the text is as simple as applying .text-center.

    No min-height CSS involved.

    For more information on how the Card component can be grouped please review Bootstrap's 4.x documentation on Card layou