Keeping a repeater container the same height is unbearably annoying and complicated. Currently repeaters auto-size to the content in them. We desperately need an option that enables all containers to be the same height.
The only way to make this possible now is to set the container height to a random level and hope that it’s enough that it won’t auto-size back down. This is a bad experience and it makes the UI look off because sometimes the container needs to be bigger than it actually has to so it doesn’t auto-resize.
One workaround (and admittedly a rigged way of doing it) is to add a box to the repeater that is the height of the tallest repeater container (in your case, the Freddie Hubbard) one. Then make the box have full transparency. This will force the containers to at least be the height of that box.
Here’s a screenshot. Note that for the sake of illustration I left the box red so you could see.
an easier way is just to hit the return button in the text box, adding lines, until it reaches the length of your largest box. A pain? definitely! Especially when you later add a box with more text and you have to go back and fix all the others.
@cstevens thanks for adding this. Essentially, you would like these boxes to all share the same height. Have you tried the workaround Shannon offered above?
@stevenjose Apologies for the late response. Shannons work around is one of many we have done but it is a good solution. The only problem is we dont know what the max height of the container will be because its using dynamic content so we can only guess.
@cstevens I feel your pain!!! when I built my lessons site www.learnwixlive.com I called support so many times asking about this, the container box work around is the “best” for now. Again tho as your point with Dynamic content it’s not ideal in that form. I also have the borders disappear on them sometimes too. Repeater upgrades would be awesome!
@avanidigitalwixpartn Yeah @wingcc brings up a good point and we have done this with blog excerpts in repeaters but this cant always happen. For example, doing that on a blog title would probably not be a good idea.
The best option is just for Wix to add a toggle or something to make all containers in a repeater the same height. Until that day comes, we will have to use these workarounds.
