windows 10 change localhost to another host in hosts file，why it's not available?

Question

1. I change localhost to 192.168.1.222
2. flush dns ipconfig /flushdns
3. ping localhost
4. but it's not available，why? thanks

I hope, localhost can resovled to anthor host, and when I visit http://localhost in chrome, it can also resolve to the host that I changed