--- layout: docs title: Cards description: Bootstrap's cards provide a flexible and extensible content container with multiple variants and options. group: components toc: true --- ## About A **card** is a flexible and extensible content container. It includes options for headers and footers, a wide variety of content, contextual background colors, and powerful display options. If you're familiar with Bootstrap 3, cards replace our old panels, wells, and thumbnails. Similar functionality to those components is available as modifier classes for cards. ## Example Cards are built with as little markup and styles as possible, but still manage to deliver a ton of control and customization. Built with flexbox, they offer easy alignment and mix well with other Bootstrap components. They have no `margin` by default, so use [spacing utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/spacing/) as needed. Below is an example of a basic card with mixed content and a fixed width. Cards have no fixed width to start, so they'll naturally fill the full width of its parent element. This is easily customized with our various [sizing options](#sizing). {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Content types Cards support a wide variety of content, including images, text, list groups, links, and more. Below are examples of what's supported. ### Body The building block of a card is the `.card-body`. Use it whenever you need a padded section within a card. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Titles, text, and links Card titles are used by adding `.card-title` to a `` tag. In the same way, links are added and placed next to each other by adding `.card-link` to an `` tag. Subtitles are used by adding a `.card-subtitle` to a `` tag. If the `.card-title` and the `.card-subtitle` items are placed in a `.card-body` item, the card title and subtitle are aligned nicely. {% capture example %}
{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Images `.card-img-top` places an image to the top of the card. With `.card-text`, text can be added to the card. Text within `.card-text` can also be styled with the standard HTML tags. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### List groups Create lists of content in a card with a flush list group. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Kitchen sink Mix and match multiple content types to create the card you need, or throw everything in there. Shown below are image styles, blocks, text styles, and a list group—all wrapped in a fixed-width card. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Header and footer Add an optional header and/or footer within a card. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} Card headers can be styled by adding `.card-header` to `` elements. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Sizing Cards assume no specific `width` to start, so they'll be 100% wide unless otherwise stated. You can change this as needed with custom CSS, grid classes, grid Sass mixins, or utilities. ### Using grid markup Using the grid, wrap cards in columns and rows as needed. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Using utilities Use our handful of [available sizing utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/sizing/) to quickly set a card's width. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Using custom CSS Use custom CSS in your stylesheets or as inline styles to set a width. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Text alignment You can quickly change the text alignment of any card—in its entirety or specific parts—with our [text align classes]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/text/#text-alignment). {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Navigation Add some navigation to a card's header (or block) with Bootstrap's [nav components]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/components/navs/). {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Images Cards include a few options for working with images. Choose from appending "image caps" at either end of a card, overlaying images with card content, or simply embedding the image in a card. ### Image caps Similar to headers and footers, cards can include top and bottom "image caps"—images at the top or bottom of a card. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Image overlays Turn an image into a card background and overlay your card's text. Depending on the image, you may or may not need additional styles or utilities. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Card styles Cards include various options for customizing their backgrounds, borders, and color. ### Background and color Use [text and background utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/colors/) to change the appearance of a card. {% capture example %} {% for color in site.data.theme-colors %}
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{% endfor %} {% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} {% include callout-warning-color-assistive-technologies.md %} ### Border Use [border utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/borders/) to change just the `border-color` of a card. Note that you can put `.text-{color}` classes on the parent `.card` or a subset of the card's contents as shown below. {% capture example %} {% for color in site.data.theme-colors %}
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Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.

{% endfor %} {% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Mixins utilities You can also change the borders on the card header and footer as needed, and even remove their `background-color` with `.bg-transparent`. {% capture example %}
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Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.

{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ## Card layout In addition to styling the content within cards, Bootstrap includes a few options for laying out series of cards. For the time being, **these layout options are not yet responsive**. ### Card groups Use card groups to render cards as a single, attached element with equal width and height columns. Card groups use `display: flex;` to achieve their uniform sizing. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} When using card groups with footers, their content will automatically line up. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Card decks Need a set of equal width and height cards that aren't attached to one another? Use card decks. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} Just like with card groups, card footers in decks will automatically line up. {% capture example %}
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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} ### Card columns Cards can be organized into [Masonry](https://masonry.desandro.com/)-like columns with just CSS by wrapping them in `.card-columns`. Cards are built with CSS `column` properties instead of flexbox for easier alignment. Cards are ordered from top to bottom and left to right. **Heads up!** Your mileage with card columns may vary. To prevent cards breaking across columns, we must set them to `display: inline-block` as `column-break-inside: avoid` isn't a bulletproof solution yet. {% capture example %}
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This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.

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{% endcapture %} {% include example.html content=example %} Card columns can also be extended and customized with some additional code. Shown below is an extension of the `.card-columns` class using the same CSS we use—CSS columns— to generate a set of responsive tiers for changing the number of columns. {% highlight scss %} .card-columns { @include media-breakpoint-only(lg) { column-count: 4; } @include media-breakpoint-only(xl) { column-count: 5; } } {% endhighlight %}