# Moving entire nodes instead of insert/delete

**URL:** <https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/moving-entire-nodes-instead-of-insert-delete/951>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/moving-entire-nodes-instead-of-insert-delete/951 "2017-09-07T16:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![JCHollett](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@JCHollett](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/JCHollett)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/moving-entire-nodes-instead-of-insert-delete/951/1 "2017-09-07T16:37:40Z")

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I’m back to a point again where I’m trying to move nodes between pages and when they’re horizontal its not so bad.

So what I have really sucks to deal with. This is just one of the ideas i’m working on.

 ![20170907_135159](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/uploads/secondsite/original/1X/b5b60c5c997d925526def5c64ac690469ee86249.jpg)

Before I only had flat nodes to deal with and we have a special kind of node that organizes content side by side. So basically a vertical node. first subparent is the left vertical column and second subparent is the right vertical column.

Assuming I can handle everything else perfectly. I’d like to have something like this.

 ![20170907_135209](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/uploads/secondsite/original/1X/80660d8b305bea09ad1c11ae756ccc27214882f7.jpg)

Doing this much is fine, but where I have to pair the 1st and 3rd nodes and the 2nd and 4th nodes to create a subparent that is sliced properly with the right content that is expected, it’s a little difficult. Without creating selection issues I can’t really slice again or else the right vertical column becomes what was sliced in the left column.

 ![20170907_135306](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/uploads/secondsite/original/1X/680c844eb5a4d643a219dcb32412e4980fef50ee.jpg)

Question is what is the chances of a prosemirror function for changing the order of content within a specific depth without actually deleting and inserting.

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**Author:** ![marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/user_avatar/discuss.prosemirror.net/marijn/32/15_2.png) [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/moving-entire-nodes-instead-of-insert-delete/951/2 "2017-09-07T19:03:24Z")

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> [@JCHollett](#):
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> Question is what is the chances of a prosemirror function for changing the order of content within a specific depth without actually deleting and inserting.

That’s very unlikely to ever be supported