[IGN-10401] Re-ording items in Flex container is fun

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I’m sure this is still an issue in 8.3, and has been for a long time in 8.1..

When trying to reorder items in a flex container, it’s awfully difficult. It’s mostly not as bad as in a column container (a big reason I stopped using them), but it’s a regular fight.

Nothing is better than a demo:

I’m trying to drag the WaterNSW title to be the 2nd to bottom item, but when I try, the items switch places back and forth and I end up now dragging the item below the one I was dragging… and the items didn’t swap places

One thing to note is that it’s rarely (if ever?) an issue when you move items UP, but pretty much always an issue moving them DOWN.

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Also the dragging gets stuck if there is a display: false element in the container.

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Sometimes is really crazy to order them, what I usually do is to cut and past :sweat_smile:

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And right click Move Up/Move down doesn't seem to work - only the Move to Front and Move to End... so to move an item down, you move it to the end.. and then you move everything you want below it to the end.. Simple things that really feel like they should just work..

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This is what I do as well. Somehow, it’s least frustrating to move all-other components to the end of the line in sequence.

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Sometimes you have to do it that way. If you move a bunch of them to the end at once, it occasionally scrambles their order..