CSS Flexbox - Order

Exercise

  1. In the "index.html" file, replace the code with the following:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>CSS</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/styles.css">
</head>

<body>
  <h1>CSS Flexbox</h1>
  <h3>Order</h3>
  <!-- flex container -->
  <div class="flex-container">
    <!-- flex items -->
    <div class="box flex-item-1">
      <p>Flex Item 1</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-2">
      <p>Flex Item 2</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-3">
      <p>Flex Item 3</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-4">
      <p>Flex Item 4</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-5">
      <p>Flex Item 5</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <!-- flex container -->
  <div class="flex-container">
    <!-- flex items -->
    <div class="box flex-item-1 positive-order">
      <p>Flex Item 1</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-2">
      <p>Flex Item 2</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-3">
      <p>Flex Item 3</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-4">
      <p>Flex Item 4</p>
    </div>
    <div class="box flex-item-5 negative-order">
      <p>Flex Item 5</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>

</html>
  1. Save.
  2. If "Live Server" is not already running, right-click anywhere in the editor and select "Open with Live Server" from the context menu.
  3. In the "styles.css" file, replace the code with the following:
.flex-container {
  border: 5px solid blue;
  display: flex;
  margin: 10px;
}

.box {
  padding: 10px;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 20px;
}

.positive-order {
  order: 1;
}

.negative-order {
  order: -1;
}

.flex-item-1 {
  background: red;
}

.flex-item-2 {
  background: green;
}

.flex-item-3 {
  background: yellow;
}

.flex-item-4 {
  background: purple;
}

.flex-item-5 {
  background: orange;
}
  1. Save.
  2. In the browser, you should see the following:

    3. Exercise 2 Result

Code Walkthrough and Explanation


order

order is a CSS property that specifies the order in which flex items are displayed within a flex container. By default, flex items are displayed in the order in which they appear in the HTML code. However, by using the order property, you can change the display order of the flex items. The order property takes an integer value that represents the order of the flex item. Flex items with lower order values appear first, while flex items with higher order values appear later.


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