This plugin makes multiple elements as high as the tallest element among them.
It also works great for responsive and fluid designs.
There are three options you can set. MaxWidth is probably useless, but hey, it's there if you want to use it.
minWidth: The plugin won't do anything unless the width is wider than this value
maxWidth: The plugin won't do anything unless the width is smaller than this value
setHeightOn: The css attribute on which the height gets set.
Yes. It works best on colums which are on a single line. If they span more lines the plugin won't take into account that each row probably would be better of with a different height. Now every row will have the height of the tallest element in the entire selection.
Second, you can only have a single (configurable) bounded range for which the plugin kicks-in. This could be a problem in certain responsive websites.
You could do this with tables right? Yes, but it's not semantic. Also it's not flexible enough for responsive websites.
But... Flexbox? It's possible, on IE10+.
What about display: table-cell;?. A bit better support, but you can't pull of example 2.
It uses the minWidth and maxWidth options. You can see this in effect when you resize your your browser window.
This example wraps the main text in a wrapper div, followed by an <a> element. The plugin works it's magic on the wrapper div, which results in the links neatly matching up vertically.