CSS alignment text-align property

CSS Alignment text-align Property

Description

The text-align property determines the alignment of line boxes within a block-level element.

Possible Values

  • left – The left edge of each line box is aligned with the left edge of the block-level element’s content area.
  • right – The right edge of each line box is aligned with the right edge of the block-level element’s content area.


  • center – The center of each line box is aligned with the center of the block-level element’s content area.

  • justify – The edges of each line box are aligned with the edges of the block-level element’s content area.

  • string – The contents of the cells in the column will be aligned according to the given string.

Applies to

All block-level elements (except the value <string>, which only applies to table cells).

DOM Syntax

object.style.textAlign = "justify"; 

Example

Here is an example demonstrating how to align text –

<html> 
<head> 
</head> 

<body> 
<p style = "text-align:right;"> 
This will be right aligned. 
</p> 

<p style = "text-align:center;"> 
This will be center aligned. 
</p> 

<p style = "text-align:left;"> 
This will be left aligned. 
</p> 
</body> 
</html> 

This will produce the following result−

CSS alignment text-align property

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