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Flexbox Dynamic Listing Problem

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#1

It’s my first time to apply CMS features to a website and I ended up with the following issues.

I already have a homepage developed, which for the most part consists of product listing, and I made the listing with flexbox. I though I can simply start pulling dynamic data and slowly replace different chunks of static text. But since the homepage can not be set to be as a Collection Page Template, I’m limited to use the Dynamic List.

But the Dynamic List forces me to use rows and my whole CSS styling fails. This is weird. Why can’t I just replace chunks of static text with dynamic? I’ve been using various CMSs and that way was a very simple way.

#2

Well I guess I solved it. I applied the same CSS classes to the Dynamic List that I use in my static Flexbox listing and the control of rows got ignored.

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This is really unintuitive and even wrong, unless I’m missing something. The whole point is the CMS not to force a change in the front-end code – an issue I’ve found with other CMSs around the net.

#3