Bootstrap cards not showing like in examples

Question

Why do my Bootstrap cards look weird? In the examples they look like cards with a border and white padding but mine look like text only without the padding and the white bac

Answer 1

This might be old, but are you using a customized bootstrap file by any chance? I recently was trying to work with cards using our customized file, and the same thing was happening to me. Then I realized that there are no card classes in the bootstrap file, nor is there any mention of Cards on the customize page.

http://getbootstrap.com/customize/

Seems strange to me, I even had a coworker verify it though. Hope this helps.