Move sidebar in between other elements on smaller screens

Question

I'm not totally sure this is possible, but I figured I'd ask.

I'm wondering to move a sidebar in-between some content when it hits a breakpoint.

So, for example something like this:

+---------------------+ +-------------+
|                     | |             |
|    Top Content      | |             |
|                     | |  Sidebar    |
|                     | |             |
+---------------------+ |             |
+---------------------+ |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|     Other           | |             |
|     Content         | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
|                     | |             |
+---------------------+ +-------------+

To this:

  +-------------------------+
  |                         |
  |        Top Content      |
  |                         |
  +-------------------------+
  +-------------------------+
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |     Sidebar             |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  +-------------------------+
  +-------------------------+
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |       Other             |
  |       Content           |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  |                         |
  +-------------------------+

So I know that I can set the orders, but I'm not quite sure how to get the "flow" to correctly set.

I'm wondering something like this:

 .flex-container { display: flex; flex-direction: row; } .top-content { order: 1; } .sidebar { order: 3; justify-self: flex-end; } .other-content { order: 2; } @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { .flex-container { flex-direction: column; } .sidebar { order: 2; } .other-content { order: 3; } }

 <div class="flex-container"> <div class="top-content"> ... </div> <div class="sidebar"> ... </div> <div class="other-content"> ... </div> </div>

But I'm not sure if that's even plausible? Wondering if this is something that needs to be done with CSS Grid instead? Anyways, just a thought. Was hoping to use the same content structure without having to hide/show the same thing with breakpoints and writing more markup on the page.

Answer 1

It's simpler and easier with CSS Grid.

 .grid-container { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; grid-template-rows: 1fr 3fr; grid-gap: .5em; height: 100vh; background-color: gray; } .top-content { grid-column: 1; background-color: orangered; border: 1px dashed black; } .sidebar { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 1 / -1; background-color: aqua; border: 1px solid black; } .other-content { grid-column: 1; background-color: lightgreen; border: 1px dashed black; } body { margin: 0; } @media (max-width: 500px) { .grid-container { grid-template-columns: 1fr; grid-template-rows: auto; } .sidebar { grid-column: 1; grid-row: 2; } }

 <div class="grid-container"> <div class="top-content">top content</div> <div class="sidebar">sidebar</div> <div class="other-content">other content</div> </div>

jsFiddle demo

Answer 2

Well, I figured out how to achieve this, see:

 .flex-container { display:flex; flex-flow: row wrap; box-sizing: border-box; } @media screen and (max-width: 600px) { break {display:none;} } div { border: 1px black solid; } .flex-container > div { box-sizing: border-box; } .flex-container > div, break{ display: inline-block; } break{ flex-basis: 100%; width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; }

 <div class="flex-container"> <div class="top-content" style="width: 350px; height: 500px;"> ... </div> <div class="sidebar" style="width: 350px; height: 500px;"> ... </div> <break></break> <div class="other-content" style="width: 350px; height: 500px;"> ... </div> </div>

The only thing I did was creating a custom HTML5 tag called <break> . This tag creates a new line between the divs that you specify. So, if you media-query is reached (due to lower resolutions) you only need to hide it.

The original idea was taken from: https://codepen.io/hrgdavor/pen/waXEqz

EDIT:

I realized about the leaking rowspan behaviour on my example. So I decided to search and I found this , and I created this demo:

 .flex-container { display:flex; flex-flow: row wrap; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: column; flex-wrap: wrap; height: 1000px; } @media screen and (min-width: 600px) { .top-content, .other-content {flex: 0 0 50%;} .sidebar {flex: 0 0 100%; order: 1;} } @media screen and (max-width: 600px) { .flex-container {flex-direction: row;} .top-content, .other-content, .sidebar {flex: 0 0 100%;} .other-content {order:2;} } .flex-container > div { box-sizing: border-box; } /* Only for doing example */ .flex-container > div { border: 1px black solid; }

 <div class="flex-container"> <div class="top-content"> ... </div> <div class="sidebar"> ... </div> <div class="other-content"> ... </div> </div>

Note: box-sizing: border-box; is important.

Hope this helps!