diff --git a/client/src/components/content-block-form/ContentElement.vue b/client/src/components/content-block-form/ContentElement.vue
index 7b4659c4..d2deb10a 100644
--- a/client/src/components/content-block-form/ContentElement.vue
+++ b/client/src/components/content-block-form/ContentElement.vue
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@
             class="contents-form__trash-icon icon-button__icon"
           />
         </a>
+        <a
+          class="button"
+          @click="$emit('up')"
+        >
+          Up
+        </a>
+        <a
+          class="button"
+          @click="$emit('down')"
+        >
+          Down
+        </a>
       </div>
     </content-form-section>
   </div>
diff --git a/client/src/graphql/immutable-operations.js b/client/src/graphql/immutable-operations.js
index 44c9715e..9c758b1b 100644
--- a/client/src/graphql/immutable-operations.js
+++ b/client/src/graphql/immutable-operations.js
@@ -19,9 +19,26 @@ export const removeAtIndex = (arr, idx) => {
   ];
 };
 export const replaceAtIndex = (arr, idx, el) => {
+  //todo: check array index bounds, numbers
  return [
    ...arr.slice(0, idx),
    el,
    ...arr.slice(idx+1)
  ];
 };
+export const swapElements = (arr, idx1, idx2)=>{
+  const maxLength = arr.length - 1;
+  if (idx1 < 0 || idx2 < 0 || idx1 > maxLength || idx2 > maxLength) {
+    return [...arr];
+  }
+  const [smaller, larger] = [idx1, idx2].sort(); // todo: check for numbers
+  const el1 = arr[smaller];
+  const el2 = arr[larger];
+  return [
+    ...arr.slice(0, smaller),
+    el2,
+    ...arr.slice(smaller+1, larger),
+    el1,
+    ...arr.slice(larger+1)
+  ];
+};
diff --git a/client/src/pages/createContentBlock.vue b/client/src/pages/createContentBlock.vue
index 4bf6cca6..0d9c97e2 100644
--- a/client/src/pages/createContentBlock.vue
+++ b/client/src/pages/createContentBlock.vue
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
               class="create-content-block__segment"
               @update="update(index, $event, outer)"
               @remove="remove(outer, index)"
+              @up="up(outer, index)"
+              @down="down(outer, index)"
             />
 
             <add-content-link
@@ -59,6 +61,8 @@
           v-else
           @update="update(outer, $event)"
           @remove="remove(outer)"
+          @up="up(outer)"
+          @down="down(outer)"
         />
 
         <add-content-link
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@
   import NEW_CONTENT_BLOCK_MUTATION from '@/graphql/gql/mutations/addContentBlock.gql';
   import {setUserBlockType} from '@/helpers/content-block';
   import MODULE_DETAILS_QUERY from '@/graphql/gql/queries/modules/moduleDetailsQuery.gql';
-  import {removeAtIndex, replaceAtIndex} from '@/graphql/immutable-operations';
+  import {insertAtIndex, removeAtIndex, replaceAtIndex, swapElements} from '@/graphql/immutable-operations';
 
   const CHOOSER = 'content-block-element-chooser-widget';
   const chooserFilter = value => value.type !== CHOOSER;
@@ -198,6 +202,25 @@
 
         });
       },
+      shift(outer, inner, distance) {
+        if (inner === undefined) {
+          this.contentBlock.contents = swapElements(this.contentBlock.contents, outer, outer + distance);
+        } else {
+          const {contents} = this.contentBlock;
+          const outerElement = contents[outer];
+          const newOuterElement = {
+            ...outerElement,
+            contents: swapElements(outerElement.contents, inner, inner + distance)
+          };
+          this.contentBlock.contents = replaceAtIndex(contents, outer, newOuterElement);
+        }
+      },
+      up(outer, inner){
+        this.shift(outer, inner, -1);
+      },
+      down(outer, inner){
+        this.shift(outer, inner, 1);
+      },
       executeRemoval(outer, inner) {
         if (inner === undefined) {
           // not a list item container, just remove the element from the outer array
diff --git a/client/tests/unit/immutable-operations.spec.js b/client/tests/unit/immutable-operations.spec.js
index bde11030..d2e1773b 100644
--- a/client/tests/unit/immutable-operations.spec.js
+++ b/client/tests/unit/immutable-operations.spec.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import {removeAtIndex, replaceAtIndex, insertAtIndex, pushToArray } from '@/graphql/immutable-operations';
+import {removeAtIndex, replaceAtIndex, insertAtIndex, pushToArray, swapElements} from '@/graphql/immutable-operations';
 describe('Cache operations', () => {
   it('removes at index', () => {
     const original = [1, 2, 3];
@@ -60,4 +60,41 @@ describe('Cache operations', () => {
     expect(copy).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 5]);
   });
 
+  it('swaps elements of array', () => {
+    const original = [1, 2, 3];
+    const copy = swapElements(original, 0, 2);
+    expect(original.length).toBe(3);
+    expect(original).toEqual([1, 2, 3]);
+    expect(copy.length).toBe(3);
+    expect(copy).toEqual([3, 2, 1]);
+
+    original.push(4);
+    expect(original.length).toBe(4);
+    expect(original).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 4]);
+    expect(copy.length).toBe(3);
+    expect(copy).toEqual([3, 2, 1]);
+  });
+
+  it('swaps neighbors', ()=>{
+    const original = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
+    const copy = swapElements(original, 3, 2);
+
+    expect(copy).toEqual([1, 2, 4, 3, 5]);
+  });
+
+  it('does nothing with wrong indices', ()=>{
+    const original = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
+    const copy1 = swapElements(original, -1, 2);
+    const copy2 = swapElements(original, 1, 99);
+    const copy3 = swapElements(original, 1, 5);
+
+    expect(copy1).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+    expect(copy2).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+    expect(copy3).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+    original.push(4);
+    expect(original.length).toBe(6);
+    expect(copy1.length).toBe(5);
+    expect(copy2.length).toBe(5);
+    expect(copy3.length).toBe(5);
+  });
 });