How do I configure MVC's style bundling order?

Question

My web app is using a large icon set with jquery-ui and jqgrid. In order to easily maintain the changes to the CSS to accommodate the larger icons when upgrading jquery-ui or jqgrid I have a separate CSS file where I have a bunch of overrides. As you can imagine this override file MUST be included after the jquery-ui stylesheet and the jqgrid style sheet. I put all my stylesheets into a bundle like so ``` bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/dark-hive/allstyles").Include( "~/Content/dark-hive/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.css", "~/Content/ui.jqgrid.css", "~/Content/jquery-ui-fixes.css", "~/Content/icons.css", "~/Content/site.css")); ``` But it is being rendered like so! ``` ``` How can I configure…

Accepted Answer

If you include each file individually, the bundle will respect your order...

```
var bundle = new Bundle("~/Content/dark-hive/allstyles", new StyleBundle());           
bundle.Include("~/Content/dark-hive/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.css");
bundle.Include("~/Content/ui.jqgrid.css");
bundle.Include("~/Content/jquery-ui-fixes.css");
bundle.Include("~/Content/icons.css");
bundle.Include("~/Content/site.css");
bundles.Add(bundle);
```

UPDATE

Even using explicit order, you'll find that there is a rather handy built-in ordering system that orders specifically named files first over all others. To completely clear this out, you can use:

```
bundles.FileSetOrderList.Clear();
```

And you can add your own custom ordering using:

```
BundleFileSetOrdering ordering = new BundleFileSetOrdering("My Order");
ordering.Files.Add("jquery.js");

bundles.FileSetOrderList.Clear();
bundles.FileSetOrderList.Add(ordering);
```

Essentially, there is a massive built-in list of files that will get put in a certain order before any file that isn't in the list - but these options let you take control.

How do I configure MVC's style bundling order?

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