---
category: Navigation
created: '2019-11-17'
description: Create previous and next buttons with CSS flexbox
keywords: css flexbox, css pagination
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/previous-next-buttons.png
title: Previous next buttons
---

## HTML

```html
<div class="previous-next-buttons">
    <!-- Previous link sticks to the left -->
    <div class="previous-next-buttons__nav">
        <a class="previous-next-buttons__button previous-next-buttons__button--l"></a>
    </div>

    <!-- Next link sticks to the right -->
    <div class="previous-next-buttons__nav">
        <a class="previous-next-buttons__button previous-next-buttons__button--r"></a>
    </div>
</div>
```

## CSS

```css
.previous-next-buttons {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
}
```

You can use the [arrow buttons](https://phuoc.ng/collection/css-layout/arrow-buttons) to create the previous and next buttons.

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

.previous-next-buttons {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;

    /* Demo */
    width: 16rem;
}

.previous-next-buttons__nav {
    position: relative;

    /* Demo */
    border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;

    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;

    height: 2rem;
    width: 3rem;
}

.previous-next-buttons__button {
    /* Transparent background */
    background-color: transparent;

    /* Size */
    height: 0.5rem;
    width: 0.5rem;
}

.previous-next-buttons__button--r {
    /* Edges */
    border-right: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-top: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    transform: translateX(-25%) rotate(45deg);
}

.previous-next-buttons__button--l {
    /* Edges */
    border-bottom: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-left: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    transform: translateX(25%) rotate(45deg);
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="previous-next-buttons">
    <div class="previous-next-buttons__nav">
        <div class="previous-next-buttons__button previous-next-buttons__button--l"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="previous-next-buttons__nav">
        <div class="previous-next-buttons__button previous-next-buttons__button--r"></div>
    </div>
</div>
```
</Playground>