Equal Height Bootstrap Cards within Slick Carousel - css

Question

I'm having trouble obtaining equal height bootstrap cards with differing length body content with a slick carousel. I've looked at similar answers on here and none of them appear to work in my scenario.
I've managed get equal height slides but for some reason I cannot get the cards within the slides to be 100% height of the slide (parent container). I'm trying to achieve what the Bootstrap class 'card-deck' achieves but in a carousel.
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-10 mx-auto s_container">
<div class="slider">
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
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<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
<div class="card-body">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Rem, quasi soluta dolorum pariatur hic porro.</div>
<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
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<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
<div class="card-body">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur, adipisicing elit. Voluptates, rem?</div>
<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
<div class="card-body">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Rem, quasi soluta dolorum pariatur hic porro.</div>
<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="img-ph.jpg" alt="place holder">
<div class="card-body">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Iusto magnam esse molestiae est. Nisi aliquam libero dolorem? Qui, enim nam.</div>
<div class="card-footer">
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.s_container{
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 40px 0 40px;
width: 100%;
}
.slider{
border: 2px solid red;
}
.slick-track {
display: flex !important;
}
.slick-slide{
margin: 12px;
height: auto;
border: 2px solid green;
}
.slick-frame {
visibility: hidden;
}
An example of running can be found here:
Example

Answer 1

Equal height has been a problem for a lot of developers over the years.
In my opinion you can choose between 2 different solutions:
Javascript solution
You loop over all the cards and save the biggest height. Set all cards to this height with JS after biggest one has been defined.
https://www.bootply.com/LnwZjxWe7L
// Get cards
var cards = $('.card-body');
var maxHeight = 0;
// Loop all cards and check height, if bigger than max then save it
for (var i = 0; i < cards.length; i++) {
if (maxHeight < $(cards[i]).outerHeight()) {
maxHeight = $(cards[i]).outerHeight();
}
}
// Set ALL card bodies to this height
for (var i = 0; i < cards.length; i++) {
$(cards[i]).height(maxHeight);
}
CSS only solution
This one is a bit more complex to explain so here is an example how to do it:
#container3 {
float:left;
width:100%;
background:green;
overflow:hidden;
position:relative;
}
#container2 {
float:left;
width:100%;
background:yellow;
position:relative;
right:30%;
}
#container1 {
float:left;
width:100%;
background:red;
position:relative;
right:40%;
}
#col1 {
float:left;
width:26%;
position:relative;
left:72%;
overflow:hidden;
}
#col2 {
float:left;
width:36%;
position:relative;
left:76%;
overflow:hidden;
}
#col3 {
float:left;
width:26%;
position:relative;
left:80%;
overflow:hidden;
}
<div id="container3"> <!-- added -->
<div id="container2"> <!-- added -->
<div id="container1">
<div id="col1">Column 1</div>
<div id="col2">Column 2</div>
<div id="col3">Super long text! Wow looks at this text, it is so long it needs to break on multiple lines!</div>
</div>
</div> <!-- added -->
</div> <!-- added -->
I got this solution from here:
https://matthewjamestaylor.com/equal-height-columns