---
category: Display
created: '2019-11-17'
description: Create a card with CSS flexbox
keywords: css card, css flexbox
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/card.png
title: Card
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="card">
    <!-- Cover -->
    <div class="card__cover">...</div>

    <!-- Content -->
    <div class="card__content">...</div>
    ...
</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.card {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
}

.card__cover {
    height: 20rem;
    width: 100%;
}

.card__content {
    /* Take available height */
    flex: 1;
}
```

<Playground>
```css placeholders.css hidden
.lines {
    padding: 0.25rem 0;
    width: 100%;
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    flex-direction: column;
}
.line {
    background: #d1d5db;
    height: 1px;
    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
}
.line.line--20 {
    width: 20%;
}
.line.line--40 {
    width: 40%;
}
.line.line--60 {
    width: 60%;
}
.line.line--80 {
    width: 80%;
}
.line.line--100 {
    width: 100%;
}
```

```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}
.card {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    width: 16rem;
    height: 100%;
    border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
}
.card__cover {
    background: #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    height: 40%;
    width: 100%;
}
.card__content {
    /* Take available height */
    flex: 1;
    padding: 0.5rem;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="card">
    <div class="card__cover">
    </div>
    <div class="card__content">
        <div class="lines">
            <div class="line line--80"></div>
            <div class="line line--40"></div>
            <div class="line line--100"></div>
            <div class="line line--60"></div>
            <div class="line line--20"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
```
</Playground>