How to uniform ui-block heights within ui-grid - css

Question

I am striping alternate rows of ui-blocks in jQuery Mobile. There are three columns, but when a cell on a row contains a different number of wrapped lines than its neighbor the background color only fills in the lines that are occupied.
For example ui-block-a (1 line), ui-block-b (2 lines), ui-block-c (2 lines). If this were a striped row block b and c would show 2 lines of text with the background color. block A shows a blank line after the line of text to keep the heights consistent but unfortunately the background color for the stripe only shows on the first line for block-a.
Here is the CSS and the HTML
CSS
.stripe {
background-color: #EAEAEA;
}
HTML
<div data-role="content">
<div class=ui-grid-b>
<div class=ui-block-a><strong>First Name</strong></div>
<div class=ui-block-b><strong>Last Name</strong></div>
<div class=ui-block-c><strong>Organization</strong></div>
<div class="ui-block-a stripe">Allison</div>
<div class="ui-block-b stripe">Akhnoukh</div>
<div class="ui-block-c stripe">Education Consultant</div>
<div class=ui-block-a>Kemi</div>
<div class=ui-block-b>Akinsanya-Rose</div>
<div class=ui-block-c>New York City Department of Education</div>
</div>
</div><!-- /content -->

Answer 1

Yea it's too bad there is no row class, similar to what you would have in Bootstrap. With that being said, perhaps you can float another div as a wrapper around your block items like this:
<div class=ui-grid-b>
<div style="float:left;width:100%">
<div class=ui-block-a><strong>First Name</strong></div>
<div class=ui-block-b><strong>Last Name</strong></div>
<div class=ui-block-c><strong>Organization</strong></div>
</div>
<div style="float:left;width:100%">
<div class="ui-block-a">Allison</div>
<div class="ui-block-b">Akhnoukh</div>
<div class="ui-block-c">Education Consultant</div>
</div>
<div class="stripe" style="float:left;width:100%">
<div class=ui-block-a>Kemi</div>
<div class=ui-block-b>Akinsanya-Rose</div>
<div class=ui-block-c>New York City Department of Education</div>
</div>
</div>
Example Fiddle found here