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<p>You can add and remove elements from shuffle after it has been created. This also works for infinite scrolling.</p>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_fF9Z"id="adding-elements">Adding elements<ahref="#adding-elements"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Adding elements"title="Direct link to Adding elements"></a></h2>
<p>Wherever you add the element in the DOM is where it will show up in the grid (assuming you’re using the default sort-by-dom-order). With this in mind, you can append, prepend, or insert elements wherever you need to get them to show up in the right order.</p>
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<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_fF9Z"id="removing-elements">Removing elements<ahref="#removing-elements"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Removing elements"title="Direct link to Removing elements"></a></h2>
<p>Shuffle will animate the element away and then remove it from the DOM once it's finished. It will then emit the <code>Shuffle.EventType.REMOVED</code> event with the array of elements in <code>event.collection</code>.</p>
