# Column container difficult to work with

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-container-difficult-to-work-with/77090>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 28, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-container-difficult-to-work-with/77090 "2023-07-28T20:50:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Allen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan_allen/32/47013_2.png) [@Ryan\_Allen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ryan_Allen)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-container-difficult-to-work-with/77090/1 "2023-07-28T20:50:07Z")

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Are the column container improvements still in the works? I love the concept but it's pretty difficult to move things around in its current state to say the least.

I believe the biggest problem is the inability to have empty rows. Everything breaks when you try to move a component to a new row if it's the only one in its current row. Development then becomes a game of moving a dummy components around to prevent this from happening.

I really think allowing empty rows would make the column container infinitely more user friendly. I'm not sure how difficult this would be to implement; I assume it was designed that way for a reason.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Carlton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tim_carlton/32/52835_2.png) [@Tim\_Carlton](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tim_Carlton)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/column-container-difficult-to-work-with/77090/2 "2023-07-31T12:51:49Z")

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My sense is that Flex Containers are the future. Column containers were developed before they came out (and influenced their design).