Design patterns that serve as basic building blocks.
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.
Cards require a small amount of markup and classes to provide you with as much control as possible. These classes and markup are flexible though and can typically be remixed and extended with ease. For example, if your card has no flush content like images, feel free to put the .card-block
class on the .card
element to consolidate your markup.
Cards support a wide variety of content, including images, text, table views, links, and more. Mix and match multiple content types to create the card you need.
Lists can be added to a card by adding a table view.
.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.
Card titles are used by adding .card-title
to a <h*>
tag. In the same way, links are added and placed next to each other by adding .card-link
to a <a>
tag.
Subtitles are used by adding a .card-subtitle
to an <h*>
tag. If the .card-title
and the .card-subtitle
items are placed in a .card-block
item, the card title and subtitle are aligned nicely.
The multiple content types can be easily combined to create the card you need. See below for an example.
Constrain the width of cards via custom CSS, our predefined grid classes, or with custom styles using our grid mixins.
Using the grid:
Using custom widths:
You can quickly change the text alignment of any card—in its entirety or specific parts—with our text align classes.
Add an optional header and/or footer within a card.
Card headers can be styled by adding .card-header
to <h*>
elements.
Use Bootstrap’s nav pills or tabs within a card header. Be sure to always include a .pull-*-*
utility class for proper alignment.
Similar to headers and footers, cards include top and bottom image caps.
Turn an image into a card background and overlay your card’s text. Depending on the image, you may or may not need .card-inverse
(see below).
Cards include a class for quickly toggling the text color. By default, cards use dark text and assume a light background. Add .card-inverse
for white text and specify the background-color
and border-color
to go with it.
You can also use .card-inverse
with the contextual backgrounds variants.
Cards include their own variant classes for quickly changing the background-color
and border-color
of a card. Darker colors require the use of .card-inverse
.
Using color to add meaning only provides a visual indication, which will not be conveyed to users of assistive technologies – such as screen readers. Ensure that information denoted by the color is either obvious from the content itself (e.g. the visible text), or is included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with the .sr-only
class.
In need of a colored card, but not the hefty background colors they bring? Replace the default modifier classes with the .card-outline-*
ones to style just the border-color
of a card.
Use card groups to render cards as a single, attached element with equal width and height columns. By default, card groups use display: table;
and table-layout: fixed;
to achieve their uniform sizing. However, enabling flexbox mode can switch that to use display: flex;
and provide the same effect.
Only applies to small devices and above.
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
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This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.
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<div class="card-group">
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Need a set of equal width and height cards that aren’t attached to one another? Use card decks. By default, card decks require two wrapping elements: .card-deck-wrapper
and a .card-deck
. We use table styles for the sizing and the gutters on .card-deck
. The .card-deck-wrapper
is used to negative margin out the border-spacing
on the .card-deck
.
Only applies to small devices and above.
ProTip! If you enable flexbox mode, you can remove the .card-deck-wrapper
.
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
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This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Last updated 3 mins ago
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.
Last updated 3 mins ago
<div class="card-deck-wrapper">
<div class="card-deck">
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Cards can be organized into Masonry-like columns with just CSS by wrapping them in .card-columns
. Cards are ordered from top to bottom and left to right when wrapped in .card-columns
.
Only applies to small devices and above.
Heads up! This is not available in IE9 and below as they have no support for the column-*
CSS properties.
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
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This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat.
This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Last updated 3 mins ago
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.
Last updated 3 mins ago
<div class="card-columns">
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title that wraps to a new line</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card card-block">
<blockquote class="card-blockquote">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.</p>
<footer>
<small class="text-muted">
Someone famous in <cite title="Source Title">Source Title</cite>
</small>
</footer>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Card image cap">
<div class="card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card card-block card-inverse card-primary text-xs-center">
<blockquote class="card-blockquote">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat.</p>
<footer>
<small>
Someone famous in <cite title="Source Title">Source Title</cite>
</small>
</footer>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="card card-block text-xs-center">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<img class="card-img" src="..." alt="Card image">
</div>
<div class="card card-block text-xs-right">
<blockquote class="card-blockquote">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.</p>
<footer>
<small class="text-muted">
Someone famous in <cite title="Source Title">Source Title</cite>
</small>
</footer>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="card card-block">
<h4 class="card-title">Card title</h4>
<p class="card-text">This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.</p>
<p class="card-text"><small class="text-muted">Last updated 3 mins ago</small></p>
</div>
</div>
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.