---
category: Navigation
created: '2019-11-17'
description: Create a pagination with CSS flexbox
keywords: css flexbox, css pagination
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/pagination.png
title: Pagination
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="pagination">
    <!-- Pagination item -->
    <div class="pagination__item">...</div>

    <!-- Repeat other items -->
    ...
</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.pagination {
    display: flex;

    /* Border */
    border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 4px;
}

.pagination__item {
    /* Center the content */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}

.pagination__item:not(:last-child) {
    /* Right border */
    border-right: 1px solid #d1d5db;
}

.pagination__item--active {
    background-color: #d1d5db;
}
```

<Playground>
```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}

.pagination {
    display: flex;

    /* Border */
    border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 4px;
}

.pagination__item {
    /* Center the content */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;

    padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;
}

.pagination__item:not(:last-child) {
    /* Right border */
    border-right: 1px solid #d1d5db;
}

.pagination__item--active {
    background-color: #d1d5db;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="pagination">
    <div class="pagination__item">1</div>
    <div class="pagination__item pagination__item--active">2</div>
    <div class="pagination__item">3</div>
    <div class="pagination__item">4</div>
</div>
```
</Playground>