Magento 2 XML – How to Add Block Before Another Block

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I want to move minicart block to top.links block.

This did the trick for me:

<move element="minicart" destination="top.links" />

Now, I added a custom block with custom .phtml file to the top.links block too:

<referenceBlock name="top.links">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="fw.account" template="Magento_Theme::html/FlavourWarehouseAccountDropdown.phtml"/>
</referenceBlock>

That works as expected too.

However, I need the block "fw.account" to be rendered before the "minicart". I tried adding the "before" and "after" to blocks but with no success.

How can I add the fw.account block before minicart block? Adding before="minicart" to fw.account block didn't work…

Best Answer

Please use below code to move minicart to toplinks :

<move element="minicart" destination="top.links" after="fw.account" />

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With the <referenceBlock> tag I'm pretty sure you can either use the name or the alias.

So in your case, I'm pretty sure you can do the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="admin-2columns-left" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
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    </referenceBlock>
</body>

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