Switching the order of block elements with CSS

As has already been suggested, Flexbox is the answer - particularly because you only need to support a single modern browser: Mobile Safari.

See: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/hLUHL/

You can remove the -moz- prefixed properties if you like, I just left them in for future readers.

    #blockContainer {
        display: -webkit-box;
        display: -moz-box;
        display: box;
        
        -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
        -moz-box-orient: vertical;
        box-orient: vertical;
    }
    #blockA {
        -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2;
        -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
        box-ordinal-group: 2;
    }
    #blockB {
        -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3;
        -moz-box-ordinal-group: 3;
        box-ordinal-group: 3;
    }
    <div id="blockContainer">
        <div id="blockA">Block A</div>
        <div id="blockB">Block B</div>
        <div id="blockC">Block C</div>
    </div>

Here is a "simple as possible" example, for changing the order of div-elements (when resizing the browser window):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>foobar</title>
    <style>
      @media screen and (max-width:300px){
        #parent{
          display:flex;
          flex-flow: column;
        }
        #a{order:2;}
        #c{order:1;}
        #b{order:3;}
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="parent">
      <div id="a">one</div>
      <div id="b">two</div>
      <div id="c">three</div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/devnull/qyroxexv/ (change window-width to see the effect of changing the order of the divs)

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Html

Css

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