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.

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

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,
 }
}