Flex Direction

Utilities for controlling the direction of flex items.

Class reference

Row

Use .flex-row to position flex items horizontally in the same direction as text:

<div class="flex flex-row bg-gray-200">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Row reversed

Use .flex-row-reverse to position flex items horizontally in the opposite direction:

<div class="flex flex-row-reverse bg-gray-200">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Column

Use .flex-col to position flex items vertically:

<div class="flex flex-col bg-gray-200">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Column reversed

Use .flex-col-reverse to position flex items vertically in the opposite direction:

<div class="flex flex-col-reverse bg-gray-200">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Responsive

To apply a flex direction utility only at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to the existing class name. For example, adding the class md:flex-row to an element would apply the flex-row utility at medium screen sizes and above.

For more information about Tailwind’s responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.

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lg

xl

<div class="flex-row sm:flex-col md:flex-row-reverse lg:flex-col-reverse xl:flex-row ...">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

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Customizing

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for flex-direction utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the flex-direction utilities by modifying the flexDirection property in the variants section of your tailwind.config.js file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    variants: {
      // ...
-     flexDirection: ['responsive'],
+     flexDirection: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
    }
  }

Disabling

If you don’t plan to use the flex-direction utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the flexDirection property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    corePlugins: {
      // ...
+     flexDirection: false,
    }
  }

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