The article describes a horizontal ScrollView with cards of varying heights. The goal was to make all cards match the height of the tallest one. Using .frame(maxHeight: .infinity) alone caused each card to stretch to the full screen height because the HStack had no height constraint. The solution was adding .fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true) to the HStack, which tells it to ignore the parent's height proposal and size itself to its ideal content height (the tallest card). The two modifiers work together: .fixedSize sets the correct container height, and .frame(maxHeight: .infinity) fills it.
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