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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Flexbox Properties Changing the Order of Flex Items

Hanxiao Jiang
Hanxiao Jiang
8,526 Points
Posted by Hanxiao Jiang
Hanxiao Jiang
8,526 Points

What if an item needed to be set at nth position

Placing item 6 to the 2nd position is doable by setting item 1 and item 6. But what if we have many items and I need place a certain item to nth position. Say, 1000 items, and the Item 500 need to be placed to the 455th position. We do need a more efficient code to achieve that rather than setting up every item.

David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

With something that depends on that kind of specificity, I think that would be something handled on the data end and not something you'd expect to arrange in CSS, which would be a horribly imprecise way to arrange 1000 items on a page.

1 Answer

Jeremy Castanza
Jeremy Castanza
12,081 Points
Jeremy Castanza
Jeremy Castanza
12,081 Points

As @David Bath mentioned, you'd like define a separate index in the database table or utilize a query to display your data on a web page. Typically, you wouldn't load that many items to a web page anyways due to performance and would utilize a database query.