How do I change Bootstrap 3 column order on mobile layout?

user3000310 picture user3000310 · Nov 24, 2013 · Viewed 245.5k times · Source

I'm making a responsive layout with a top fixed navbar. Underneath I have two columns, one for a sidebar (3), and one for content (9). Which on desktop looks like this

navbar
[3][9]

When I resize to mobile the navbar is compressed and hidden, then the sidebar is stacked on top of the content, like this:

navbar
[3]
[9]

I would like the main content at the top, so I need to change the order on mobile to this:

navbar
[9]
[3]

I found this article which covers the same points, but the accepted answer has been edited to say that the solution no applies to the current version of Bootstrap.

How can I reorder these columns on mobile? Or alternatively, how can I get the sidbar list-group into my expanding navbar?

Here is my code:

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
  <div class="container">
    <a href="#" class="navbar-brand">Brand Title</a>
    <button class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navHeaderCollapse">
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
    </button>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse navHeaderCollapse">

    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"><!--original navbar-->
      <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">FAQ</a></li>
    </ul>

    </div>
  </div>
</div><!--End Navbar Div-->
    <div class="container">
  <div class="row">

    <div class="col-lg-3">
  <div class="list-group">
    <a href="#" class="list-group-item">
    <h4 class="list-group-item-heading">Lorem ipsum</h4>
    <p class="list-group-item-text">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text.</p></a>
  </div>
</div><!--end sidebar-->


<div class="col-lg-9">
  <div class="panel panel-default">
    <div class="panel-body">
      <div class="page-header">
     Main Content
    </div>
  </div>
</div><!--end main content area-->

Answer

emre nevayeshirazi picture emre nevayeshirazi · Nov 24, 2013

You cannot change the order of columns in smaller screens but you can do that in large screens.

So change the order of your columns.

<!--Main Content-->
<div class="col-lg-9 col-lg-push-3">
</div>

<!--Sidebar-->
<div class="col-lg-3 col-lg-pull-9">
</div>

By default this displays the main content first.

So in mobile main content is displayed first.

By using col-lg-push and col-lg-pull we can reorder the columns in large screens and display sidebar on the left and main content on the right.

Working fiddle here.