Twitter Bootstrap carousel different height images cause bouncing arrows

Question

I\'ve been using Bootstrap\'s carousel class and it has been straightforward so far, however one problem I\'ve had is that images of different heights cause the arrows to bo

Answer 1

Here is the solution that worked for me; I did it this way as the content in the carousel was dynamically generated from user-submitted content (so we could not use a static height in the stylesheet) - This solution should also work with different sized screens:

function updateCarouselSizes(){
  jQuery(".carousel").each(function(){
    // I wanted an absolute minimum of 10 pixels
    var maxheight=10; 
    if(jQuery(this).find('.item,.carousel-item').length) {
      // We've found one or more item within the Carousel...
      jQuery(this).carousel(); // Initialise the carousel (include options as appropriate)
      // Now we iterate through each item within the carousel...
      jQuery(this).find('.item,.carousel-item').each(function(k,v){ 
        if(jQuery(this).outerHeight()>maxheight) {
          // This item is the tallest we've found so far, so store the result...
          maxheight=jQuery(this).outerHeight();
        }
      });
      // Finally we set the carousel's min-height to the value we've found to be the tallest...
      jQuery(this).css("min-height",maxheight+"px");
    }
  });
}

jQuery(function(){
  jQuery(window).on("resize",updateCarouselSizes);
  updateCarouselSizes();
}

Technically this is not responsive, but for my purposes the on window resize makes this behave responsively.