Reverse Stack

With responsive HTML emails, you sometimes need to reverse the order in which stacked columns appear on mobile. You might even want to set a custom stacking order for layouts with 3+ columns.

Reverse 2 col

Imagine a two column layout, with text on the left and an image on the right:

2-col.html
<table class="w-full">
<tr>
<th class="sm:block w-1/2 sm:w-full px-2 font-sans font-normal text-left">
<p class="text-2xl font-hairline text-black">Left text</p>
<p class="text-slate-700">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Tempore aspernatur.</p>
</th>
<th class="sm:block w-1/2 sm:w-full px-2 font-normal text-left">
<img src="https://picsum.photos/600/600" alt="Unsplash photo">
</th>
</tr>
</table>

Naturally, the image will show under the text when viewed on a mobile device.

However, using table responsive display utilities, we can reverse the columns:

2-col-reverse.html
<table class="w-full">
<tr>
<th class="w-1/2 sm:table-footer-group px-2 font-sans font-normal text-left">
<div class="sm:w-full sm:px-8">
<h2 class="text-2xl font-hairline text-black">Left text</h2>
<p class="text-slate-700 m-0">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Tempore aspernatur.</p>
</div>
</th>
<th class="w-1/2 sm:table-header-group px-2 font-normal text-left">
<div class="sm:w-full sm:px-8">
<img src="https://picsum.photos/600/600" alt="Unsplash photo">
</div>
</th>
</tr>
</table>

It's done in 2 simple steps:

  1. Use the responsive table-{...}-group utilities on each column, to reverse column order on small screens
  2. Wrap the contents of each column in a <div> and use it to set padding for mobile. This is required because the CSS properties used to reverse the column order do not support padding

See the 2 col reorder demo on CodePen.

Reorder 3+ cols

In a similar fashion, we can reorder a 3+ column layout:

3-col-reverse.html
<table class="w-full">
<tr class="sm:w-full sm:table">
<th class="w-1/3 sm:table-footer-group">
<div class="sm:px-2">
<h2 class="text-xl font-hairline">Last on mobile</h2>
</div>
</th>
<th class="w-1/3 sm:table-footer-group">
<div class="sm:px-2">
<h2 class="text-xl font-hairline">Second on mobile</h2>
</div>
</th>
<th class="w-1/3 sm:table-caption sm:w-full">
<div class="sm:px-2">
<h2 class="text-xl font-hairline">First on mobile</h2>
</div>
</th>
</tr>
</table>

This only needed a couple of extra steps:

  • Make the <tr> full width on mobile, by adding sm:w-full and sm:table
  • Use sm:table-caption and sm:w-full on the column that you want to display first on mobile

See the 3+ col reorder demo on CodePen.

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