How to make an alternating responsive grid?

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How to make an alternating responsive grid?

74 views Asked by Motiejus Jakštys At 11 November 2021 at 07:53

I have a 2-column grid as follows: some text, followed by an image related to that text. On the other row the order is flipped:

| Text 1           | Image for Text 1 |
| Image for Text 2 | Text 2           |
| Text 3           | Image for Text 3 |

I created a standard grid to achieve it (jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/6yxLpqmr/), extract from source:

<div class="pure-g">
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 1</article>
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 1</article>
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 2</article>
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 2</article>
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 3</article>
  <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 3</article>
  <!-- many more alternating articles like this -->
</div>

However, once the grid is collapsed on a narrow screen, it results in:

Text 1
Image for Text 1
Image for Text 2
Text 2
Text 3
Image for Text 3
<...>

Which is un-intuitive.

Q1: How can I change the result to:

Image for Text 1
Text 1
Image for Text 2
Text 2
Image for Text 3
Text 3

Q2: is it possible to write CSS in a way that creates the alternation by itself (without generating the CSS of course), while semantically keeping the HTML "in order" (image/text/image/text/...)?

Original Q&A

There are 2 answers

Angel Politis On 11 November 2021 at 08:01

You can use order along with an appropriate media query to achieve that:

@media screen and (max-width: 425px) {
  .pure-g > article:nth-child(2) {
    order: -1;
  }
}

Check out the updated jsFiddle here or the snippet below.

.pure-g > article:nth-child(2) {
  order: -1;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/build/pure-min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/build/grids-responsive-min.css" />
    <style>article { min-height: 100px; min-width: 200px; }</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="pure-g">
      <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 1</article>
      <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 1</article>
      <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 2</article>
      <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 2</article>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

**Pusoy** · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-11T08:15:44+00:00

It is better to create child box and use flex-direction: column-reverse. Check out the jsFiddle here.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/build/pure-min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/build/grids-responsive-min.css" />
    <style>
        article {
            min-height: 100px;
            min-width: 200px;
        }
        .box {
            display: flex;
            flex-direction: column;
        }
        @media screen and (max-width: 600px) {
             .box:first-child {
                flex-direction: column-reverse;
             }
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>

    <div class="pure-g">
        <div class="box">
            <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 1</article>
            <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 1</article>
        </div>
        <div class="box">
            <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Image for Text 2</article>
            <article class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2">Text 2</article>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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