Aligning left right using Flex - html

Question

So I have a code like this more or less
<div class="content">
<div class="c1">
<div>
<div class="c2">
<div>
<div class="c3">
<div>
<div class="c4">
<div>
</div>
By using flex, can I do this?
<c1> <c3>
<c2> <c4>
I know I can use <ul> or <table>, but I am just wondering if I can do it using flex. I have tried using flex but cannot accomplish it.

Answer 1

DEMO
Yes, this is possible with Flexbox - Set a height on the .content and the child divs (e.g. content: 100px, divs 50px) and specify flex-flow: column wrap
.content {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
flex-flow: column wrap;
align-content: stretch;
height: 100px;
}
.content div {
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
}
Flex-flow is shorthand for flex-direction and flex-wrap.
Flex-direction sets the direction - row, column, row-reverse, column-reverse.
Flex-wrap wraps the flexible items (or not). By default this is nowrap, the demo uses wrap and you can also use wrap-reverse

Answer 2

You can achieve this by modifying your markup to the following structure:
<div class="content">
<div class="left-col">
<div class="c1"><div>
<div class="c2"><div>
</div>
<div class="right-col">
<div class="c3"><div>
<div class="c4"><div>
</div>
</div>
Now you have two columns. Simply add the following styles to your CSS:
.content {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between; // or whatever you want
flex-direction: row; // row is the default value, so you don't need to specify it. It will place the cols beside each other.
}
.left-col, .right-col {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
By specifying flex-direction: column; the elements will be positioned below each other.
Here's some great resource: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Maybe you also want to check out the new native grid-layout: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_grid.asp

Answer 3

You can easily do this with CSS grid, this is in my opinion more useful to use but this is the code that uses CSS grid
HTML
<div class="content">
<div class="c1">test 1</div>
<div class="c2">test 2</div>
<div class="c3">test 3</div>
<div class="c4">test 4</div>
</div>
CSS:
.content {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
}

Answer 4

And what about this trick ?
.content
{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 50px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
<div class="content">
<div class="c1">1</div>
<div class="c2">2</div>
<div class="c3">3</div>
<div class="c4">4</div>
</div>

Answer 5

Yes you can do please consider below code.
HTML
<div class="content ">
<div class="col-12 d-flex justify-content-between">
<div class="c1 col-6 text-center">c1
</div>
<div class="c2 col-6 text-center">c2
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-12 d-flex justify-content-between">
<div class="c3 col-6 text-center">c3
</div>
<div class="c4 col-6 text-center">c4
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.justify-content-around {
-ms-flex-pack: distribute!important;
justify-content: space-around!important;
}
.d-flex {
display: -webkit-box!important;
display: -ms-flexbox!important;
display: flex!important;
}