CSS Text Alignment
CSS Text Alignment and Text Direction
In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:
text-aligntext-align-lastdirectionunicode-bidivertical-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):
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):
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 <p> elements:
p.a {
text-align-last: right;
}
p.b {
text-align-last: center;
}
p.c {
text-align-last: justify;
}
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Text Direction
The direction and unicode-bidi properties can be used to change the text direction of an element:
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;
}
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The CSS Text Alignment/Direction Properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| direction | Specifies the text direction/writing direction |
| text-align | Specifies the horizontal alignment of text |
| text-align-last | Specifies how to align the last line of a text |
| unicode-bidi | Used together with the direction property to set or return whether the text should be overridden to support multiple languages in the same document |
| vertical-align | Sets the vertical alignment of an element |
