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CSS Text Alignment

Text Alignment and Text Direction

In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:

  • text-align
  • text-align-last
  • direction
  • unicode-bidi
  • vertical-align

Text Alignment

The text-align property is used to set the horizontal alignment of a text.

A text can be left or right aligned, centered, or justified.

The following example shows center aligned, and left and right aligned text (left alignment is default if text direction is left-to-right, and right alignment is default if text direction is right-to-left):

Example

h1 {
  text-align: center;
}

h2 {
  text-align: left;
}

h3 {
  text-align: right;
}

When the text-align property is set to "justify", each line is stretched so that every line has equal width, and the left and right margins are straight (like in magazines and newspapers):

Example

div {
  text-align: justify;
}

Text Align Last

The text-align-last property specifies how to align the last line of a text.

Example

Align the last line of text in three

elements:

p.a {
  text-align-last: right;
}

p.b {
  text-align-last: center;
}

p.c {
  text-align-last: justify;
}

Text Direction

The direction and unicode-bidi properties can be used to change the text direction of an element:

Example

p {
  direction: rtl;
  unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}

Vertical Alignment

The vertical-align property sets the vertical alignment of an element.

Example

Set the vertical alignment of an image in a text: 

img.a {
  vertical-align: baseline;
}

img.b {
  vertical-align: text-top;
}

img.c {
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
}

img.d {
  vertical-align: sub;
}

img.e {
  vertical-align: super;
}

The CSS Text Alignment/Direction Properties

Property Description
Specifies the text direction/writing direction
Specifies the horizontal alignment of text
Specifies how to align the last line of a text
Used together with the property to set or return whether the text should be overridden to support multiple languages in the same document
Sets the vertical alignment of an element

Text Alignment
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