The Equal Height and Fluid Columns Pattern
Discover how to create equal-height columns that adapt fluidly to different screen sizes using CSS Flexbox and Grid. Understand the pattern's advantages, common pitfalls, and practical applications in card layouts, pricing tables, and dashboards. This lesson guides you in achieving visually consistent and responsive layouts without JavaScript.
The Equal Height and Fluid Columns pattern addresses a common challenge in UI design: how to maintain visual consistency across columns with varying content lengths. By ensuring that columns remain the same height regardless of their content, and that they adapt fluidly to the screen size, the layout feels more structured, balanced, and readable. Equal-height columns create harmony, particularly in grid-based layouts like cards, pricing tables, and feature comparisons.
How the pattern works
The pattern relies primarily on CSS Flexbox or Grid to create rows of elements where each column stretches to match the height of the tallest ...