So, I was messing around with a site on Duda the other day. Pretty straightforward platform most of the time, right? But then I hit this snag with section height, specifically with columns.
I had this row set up, maybe three columns side-by-side. Put some different stuff in each one – text in one, an image in another, maybe a button in the third. The problem was, the content in each column wasn’t the same length. One column ended up being way taller than the others because it had more text.
It just looked sloppy. You know, the background of the row didn’t extend nicely, and the columns felt uneven. My first thought was, okay, there must be a simple height setting for the row or the columns somewhere.
I started clicking around. Checked the row settings, then the column settings. Looked for anything saying ‘height’, ‘match height’, ‘equalize columns’. Found padding, margins, background stuff, but nothing obvious for making them all the same height automatically based on the tallest one.
Spent a good chunk of time just poking through all the menus in the Duda editor. I tweaked the padding inside the columns, thinking maybe I could manually balance them. Nah, that wasn’t going to work well, especially if the content changed later. It felt like I was missing something simple.
Finding the Fix
Getting a bit annoyed at this point. I almost gave up and just accepted the uneven look, but it bugged me. I remembered sometimes Duda has features tucked away, or you need to approach it differently.
So, I started thinking about structure. What if I tried putting each column’s content inside another container within the column? Sometimes nesting things fixes weird layout issues.
- First, I tried adding an ‘Inner Row’ widget inside one of the problematic columns.
- Then I moved the actual content (the text, image, etc.) inside that inner row.
- Did this for all the columns in the main row.
And believe it or not, that kinda helped! It wasn’t a direct ‘height’ setting, but structuring it that way seemed to make Duda’s layout engine handle the heights a bit better across the main columns. It wasn’t perfect in all situations, but it made things line up much more nicely than before.
It wasn’t some magic button labeled ‘Fix Height’, just a workaround by reorganizing the elements. Took some trial and error, moving things around, but eventually, I got the visual balance I wanted. Sometimes with these builders, you just gotta try different ways to structure things until it clicks into place.
