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 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.
Card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
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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.
Titles, text, and links
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 an <a>
tag.
Subtitles are used by adding a .card-subtitle
to a <h*>
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.
Card title
Card subtitle
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Card link Another linkImages
.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.
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
List groups
Create lists of content in a card with a flush list group.
- An item
- A second item
- A third item
- An item
- A second item
- A third item
- An item
- A second item
- A third item
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.
Card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
- An item
- A second item
- A third item
Header and footer
Add an optional header and/or footer within a card.
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereCard headers can be styled by adding .card-header
to <h*>
elements.
Featured
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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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.
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereUsing utilities
Use our handful of available sizing utilities to quickly set a card’s width.
Using custom CSS
Use custom CSS in your stylesheets or as inline styles to set a width.
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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You can quickly change the text alignment of any card—in its entirety or specific parts—with our text align classes.
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereSpecial title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereSpecial title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereNavigation
Add some navigation to a card’s header (or block) with Bootstrap’s nav components.
Special title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereSpecial title treatment
With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Go somewhereImages
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.
Card title
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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Card title
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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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.
Horizontal
Using a combination of grid and utility classes, cards can be made horizontal in a mobile-friendly and responsive way. In the example below, we remove the grid gutters with .g-0
and use .col-md-*
classes to make the card horizontal at the md
breakpoint. Further adjustments may be needed depending on your card content.
Card title
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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Card styles
Cards include various options for customizing their backgrounds, borders, and color.
Background and color
Added in v5.2.0Set a background-color
with contrasting foreground color
with our .text-bg-{color}
helpers. Previously it was required to manually pair your choice of .text-{color}
and .bg-{color}
utilities for styling, which you still may use if you prefer.
Primary card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Secondary card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Success card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Danger card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Warning card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Info card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Light card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Dark card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
.visually-hidden
class.
Border
Use border utilities 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.
Primary card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Secondary card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Success card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Danger card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Warning card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Info card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Light card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Dark card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
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
.
Success card title
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
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 start off stacked and use display: flex;
to become attached with uniform dimensions starting at the sm
breakpoint.
Card title
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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Card title
This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
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Card title
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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When using card groups with footers, their content will automatically line up.
Card title
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Card title
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.
Grid cards
Use the Bootstrap grid system and its .row-cols
classes to control how many grid columns (wrapped around your cards) you show per row. For example, here’s .row-cols-1
laying out the cards on one column, and .row-cols-md-2
splitting four cards to equal width across multiple rows, from the medium breakpoint up.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Change it to .row-cols-3
and you’ll see the fourth card wrap.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
When you need equal height, add .h-100
to the cards. If you want equal heights by default, you can set $card-height: 100%
in Sass.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This is a short card.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Card title
This is a longer card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Just like with card groups, card footers will automatically line up.
Card title
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This content is a little bit longer.
Card title
This card has supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content.
Card title
This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action.
Masonry
In v4
we used a CSS-only technique to mimic the behavior of Masonry-like columns, but this technique came with lots of unpleasant side effects. If you want to have this type of layout in v5
, you can just make use of Masonry plugin. Masonry is not included in Bootstrap, but we’ve made a demo example to help you get started.
CSS
Variables
Added in v5.2.0As part of Bootstrap’s evolving CSS variables approach, cards now use local CSS variables on .card
for enhanced real-time customization. Values for the CSS variables are set via Sass, so Sass customization is still supported, too.
--#{$prefix}card-spacer-y: #{$card-spacer-y};
--#{$prefix}card-spacer-x: #{$card-spacer-x};
--#{$prefix}card-title-spacer-y: #{$card-title-spacer-y};
--#{$prefix}card-title-color: #{$card-title-color};
--#{$prefix}card-subtitle-color: #{$card-subtitle-color};
--#{$prefix}card-border-width: #{$card-border-width};
--#{$prefix}card-border-color: #{$card-border-color};
--#{$prefix}card-border-radius: #{$card-border-radius};
--#{$prefix}card-box-shadow: #{$card-box-shadow};
--#{$prefix}card-inner-border-radius: #{$card-inner-border-radius};
--#{$prefix}card-cap-padding-y: #{$card-cap-padding-y};
--#{$prefix}card-cap-padding-x: #{$card-cap-padding-x};
--#{$prefix}card-cap-bg: #{$card-cap-bg};
--#{$prefix}card-cap-color: #{$card-cap-color};
--#{$prefix}card-height: #{$card-height};
--#{$prefix}card-color: #{$card-color};
--#{$prefix}card-bg: #{$card-bg};
--#{$prefix}card-img-overlay-padding: #{$card-img-overlay-padding};
--#{$prefix}card-group-margin: #{$card-group-margin};
Sass variables
$card-spacer-y: $spacer;
$card-spacer-x: $spacer;
$card-title-spacer-y: $spacer * .5;
$card-title-color: var(--#{$prefix}heading-color);
$card-subtitle-color: null;
$card-border-width: var(--#{$prefix}border-width);
$card-border-color: var(--#{$prefix}border-color-translucent);
$card-border-radius: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius);
$card-box-shadow: null;
$card-inner-border-radius: subtract($card-border-radius, $card-border-width);
$card-cap-padding-y: $card-spacer-y * .5;
$card-cap-padding-x: $card-spacer-x;
$card-cap-bg: rgba(var(--#{$prefix}body-color-rgb), .03);
$card-cap-color: null;
$card-height: null;
$card-color: null;
$card-bg: var(--#{$prefix}body-bg);
$card-img-overlay-padding: $spacer;
$card-group-margin: $grid-gutter-width * .5;