Goal: move product media thumbnails to the left of the main image in Shopify’s Dawn theme, desktop only, without changing mobile.
What worked for some:
Adding a CSS snippet to base.css (inside a desktop media query) to reorder the gallery via flex (row-reverse) so thumbnails appear on the left. Mobile remains unchanged.
One update notes it only worked after changing the Product media setting from “Thumbnails” to “Thumbnails carousel” (Dawn 15.0.0).
Common issues reported:
Thumbnails stack below the main image instead of moving left (seen on various versions, e.g., Dawn 8.0+).
When many images, the vertical list extends with no wrapper/scroll or arrows; users want a capped list (e.g., max 4) with scroll/controls.
Mixed compatibility across themes (requests for Refresh and Palo Alto) with no provided cross-theme solution.
Maintainer responses/outcomes:
Basic left-alignment via CSS was shared; advanced behavior (scroll/arrows, cross-theme support) flagged as custom work and suggested to hire an expert.
A YouTube tutorial link was shared as an additional resource.
Status: partially solved. Works for some with the CSS + correct media setting; unresolved for others (version/theme differences, scrolling/navigation for long thumbnail lists).
Summarized with AI on December 13.
AI used: gpt-5.
Hey! I need a Help! I want to change the position for Thumbnail-Carousel on the Product Page to the left side and I use Dawn Theme. Have anybody Idees or code for this solution?
Ideally looking to implement this in desktop only as the mobile default works fine.
I checked and found that. Your current thumbnail is using slider. Your slider is currently horizontal. Now if you want to change it to vertical, you can’t use css. In this part you can hire a shopify expert to assist you.
However, the items are not “contained” in a wrapper so when there are more than 5 images, they just extend the thumbnails instead of having an arrow/button to show more if required.
Would really be useful to know if there’s any extra code for that.
Hi @kazan_mila Kazan_mila, I saw your new test website, it seems that the vertical thumbnails are going well, could you pls kindly give hint for how to achieve it ?
I used this code in my base.css file, however the thumbnails now only show vertically under the main image, not on the left - is there something I can add to move the thumbnails to the left of the main gallery viewer?
I tried to use your code but it is not working
Currently I am using dawn theme version 8.0
just let me know how can i change the position of product thumbnail from bottom to left
Your code worked for me! Only thing dad did not move was the carrousel if there are more than 3 images. So now there is a whole list of images without an option to ‘scroll’ trough them. What needs to be added to make this possible and have max 4 images on the left and arrows to scroll trough the image list?
Thanks in advance! Looking forward to your suggestions.
@AvadaCommerce@AVADA This didn’t work for me, I added the code to the mentioned file and it did nothing to the position of the thumbnail images, could you help out?
Is it possible in Palo Alto Theme? I also want to achieve this one on Palo Alto them but I cannot achieve it even using custom something. May I know if you can help me?