Bootstrap 3 grid with different height in each item - is it solvable using only CSS?

Question

I\'m trying to make a grid of thumbnails, where each thumbnail has an image and a label. It works fine if all the labels have the same length, because then all the thumbnail

Answer 1

You can also do a CSS only clearfix like this. Simply add auto-clear to the row.

@media (min-width:1200px){
    .auto-clear .col-lg-1:nth-child(12n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-lg-2:nth-child(6n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-lg-3:nth-child(4n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-lg-4:nth-child(3n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-lg-6:nth-child(odd){clear:left;}
}
@media (min-width:992px) and (max-width:1199px){
    .auto-clear .col-md-1:nth-child(12n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-md-2:nth-child(6n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-md-3:nth-child(4n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-md-4:nth-child(3n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-md-6:nth-child(odd){clear:left;}
}
@media (min-width:768px) and (max-width:991px){
    .auto-clear .col-sm-1:nth-child(12n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-sm-2:nth-child(6n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-sm-3:nth-child(4n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-sm-4:nth-child(3n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-sm-6:nth-child(odd){clear:left;}
}
@media (max-width:767px){
    .auto-clear .col-xs-1:nth-child(12n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-xs-2:nth-child(6n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-xs-3:nth-child(4n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-xs-4:nth-child(3n+1){clear:left;}
    .auto-clear .col-xs-6:nth-child(odd){clear:left;}
}

http://www.codeply.com/go/lUbs1JgXUd

Answer 2

I think it's better to use some few row of js. With CSS you could only have a new "row" using clearfix class (as answered before), but each div will have different height. If you wish to set the same height to each dynamic div, I think you could do it only by js.

  $(document).ready(function() {
    var maxHeight = 0;          
    $(".equalize").each(function(){
      if ($(this).height() > maxHeight) { maxHeight = $(this).height(); }
    });         
    $(".equalize").height(maxHeight);
  }); 

Here is a working demo based on your code.

All what you have to do is giving the same class to each main div inside the col--, and than run a each() function in js that give to them the same height (the max-one).

Your HTML structure should looks like that:

<div class="container">
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <div class="thumbnail equalize">

      <!-- your HTML content -->

    </div> <!-- /.thumbnail equalize -->
  </div> <!-- /.col-md-4 -->
</div> <!-- /.container -->