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CSS Text Alignment

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

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

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:

Text Direction

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

Example

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;
>

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

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vertical-align

The vertical-align CSS property sets vertical alignment of an inline, inline-block or table-cell box.

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The vertical-align property can be used in two contexts:

• To vertically align an inline-level element’s box inside its containing line box. For example, it could be used to vertically position an image in a line of text.
• To vertically align the content of a cell in a table.

Note that vertical-align only applies to inline, inline-block and table-cell elements: you can’t use it to vertically align block-level elements.

Syntax

/* Keyword values */ vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: sub; vertical-align: super; vertical-align: text-top; vertical-align: text-bottom; vertical-align: middle; vertical-align: top; vertical-align: bottom; /* values */ vertical-align: 10em; vertical-align: 4px; /* values */ vertical-align: 20%; /* Global values */ vertical-align: inherit; vertical-align: initial; vertical-align: revert; vertical-align: revert-layer; vertical-align: unset; 

The vertical-align property is specified as one of the values listed below.

Values for inline elements

Parent-relative values

These values vertically align the element relative to its parent element:

Aligns the baseline of the element with the subscript-baseline of its parent.

Aligns the baseline of the element with the superscript-baseline of its parent.

Aligns the top of the element with the top of the parent element’s font.

Aligns the bottom of the element with the bottom of the parent element’s font.

Aligns the middle of the element with the baseline plus half the x-height of the parent.

Aligns the baseline of the element to the given length above the baseline of its parent. A negative value is allowed.

Aligns the baseline of the element to the given percentage above the baseline of its parent, with the value being a percentage of the line-height property. A negative value is allowed.

Line-relative values

The following values vertically align the element relative to the entire line:

Aligns the top of the element and its descendants with the top of the entire line.

Aligns the bottom of the element and its descendants with the bottom of the entire line.

For elements that do not have a baseline, the bottom margin edge is used instead.

Values for table cells

baseline (and sub , super , text-top , text-bottom , , and )

Aligns the baseline of the cell with the baseline of all other cells in the row that are baseline-aligned.

Aligns the top padding edge of the cell with the top of the row.

Centers the padding box of the cell within the row.

Aligns the bottom padding edge of the cell with the bottom of the row.

Negative values are allowed.

Formal definition

Initial value	baseline
Applies to	inline-level and table-cell elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line .
Inherited	no
Percentages	refer to the line-height of the element itself
Computed value	for percentage and length values, the absolute length, otherwise the keyword as specified
Animation type	a length

Formal syntax

Examples

Basic example

HTML

div> An img src="frame_image.svg" alt="link" width="32" height="32" /> image with a default alignment. div> div> An img class="top" src="frame_image.svg" alt="link" width="32" height="32" /> image with a text-top alignment. div> div> An img class="bottom" src="frame_image.svg" alt="link" width="32" height="32" /> image with a text-bottom alignment. div> div> An img class="middle" src="frame_image.svg" alt="link" width="32" height="32" /> image with a middle alignment. div> 

CSS

img.top  vertical-align: text-top; > img.bottom  vertical-align: text-bottom; > img.middle  vertical-align: middle; > 

Result

Vertical alignment in a line box

HTML

p> top: img style="vertical-align: top" src="star.png" alt="star"/> middle: img style="vertical-align: middle" src="star.png" alt="star"/> bottom: img style="vertical-align: bottom" src="star.png" alt="star"/> super: img style="vertical-align: super" src="star.png" alt="star"/> sub: img style="vertical-align: sub" src="star.png" alt="star"/> p> p> text-top: img style="vertical-align: text-top" src="star.png" alt="star"/> text-bottom: img style="vertical-align: text-bottom" src="star.png" alt="star"/> 0.2em: img style="vertical-align: 0.2em" src="star.png" alt="star"/> -1em: img style="vertical-align: -1em" src="star.png" alt="star"/> 20%: img style="vertical-align: 20%" src="star.png" alt="star"/> -100%: img style="vertical-align: -100%" src="star.png" alt="star"/> p> 

#*  box-sizing: border-box; > img  margin-right: 0.5em; > p  height: 3em; padding: 0 0.5em; font-family: monospace; text-decoration: underline overline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 80%; > 

Result

Vertical alignment in a table cell

HTML

table> tr> td style="vertical-align: baseline">baselinetd> td style="vertical-align: top">toptd> td style="vertical-align: middle">middletd> td style="vertical-align: bottom">bottomtd> td> p> There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. p> p> There is another theory which states that this has already happened. p> td> tr> table> 

CSS

table  margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 80%; > table, th, td  border: 1px solid black; > td  padding: 0.5em; font-family: monospace; > 

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

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How to Vertically Center Text with CSS

Centering elements vertically with CSS often gives trouble. However, there are several ways of vertical centering, and each is easy to use.

Use the CSS vertical-align property

The vertical-align property is used to vertically center inline elements.

The values of the vertical-align property align the element relative to its parent element:

• Line-relative values vertically align an element relative to the entire line.
• Values for table cells are relative to the table-height-algorithm, which commonly refers to the height of the row.

It is important to note that it is possible to nudge text vertically up or down in CSS using the vertical-align property. This property sets the vertical alignment of an inline or table-cell element, and can be used to adjust the vertical position of text within its container.

Note that vertical-align only applies to inline or table-cell elements, so it may not work as expected on block-level elements such as or

. In such cases, you may need to wrap the text in an inline or table-cell element to apply vertical-align .

Example of vertically aligning a text:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> style> div < display: table-cell; width: 250px; height: 200px; padding: 10px; border: 3px dashed #1c87c9; vertical-align: middle; > style> head> body> div>Vertically aligned text div> body> html>

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CSS Layout — Horizontal & Vertical Align

Setting the width of the element will prevent it from stretching out to the edges of its container.

The element will then take up the specified width, and the remaining space will be split equally between the two margins:

This div element is centered.

Example

Note: Center aligning has no effect if the width property is not set (or set to 100%).

Center Align Text

To just center the text inside an element, use text-align: center;

Example

Tip: For more examples on how to align text, see the CSS Text chapter.

Center an Image

To center an image, set left and right margin to auto and make it into a block element:

Example

Left and Right Align — Using position

One method for aligning elements is to use position: absolute; :

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Example

Note: Absolute positioned elements are removed from the normal flow, and can overlap elements.

Left and Right Align — Using float

Another method for aligning elements is to use the float property:

Example

The clearfix Hack

Note: If an element is taller than the element containing it, and it is floated, it will overflow outside of its container. You can use the «clearfix hack» to fix this (see example below).

Without Clearfix

With Clearfix

Then we can add the clearfix hack to the containing element to fix this problem:

Example

Center Vertically — Using padding

There are many ways to center an element vertically in CSS. A simple solution is to use top and bottom padding :

Example

To center both vertically and horizontally, use padding and text-align: center :

I am vertically and horizontally centered.

Example

Center Vertically — Using line-height

Another trick is to use the line-height property with a value that is equal to the height property:

I am vertically and horizontally centered.

Example

.center <
line-height: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 3px solid green;
text-align: center;
>

/* If the text has multiple lines, add the following: */
.center p line-height: 1.5;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
>

Center Vertically — Using position & transform

If padding and line-height are not options, another solution is to use positioning and the transform property:

I am vertically and horizontally centered.

Example

.center <
height: 200px;
position: relative;
border: 3px solid green;
>

.center p margin: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
>

Tip: You will learn more about the transform property in our 2D Transforms Chapter.

Center Vertically — Using Flexbox

You can also use flexbox to center things. Just note that flexbox is not supported in IE10 and earlier versions:

Example

.center <
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
height: 200px;
border: 3px solid green;
>

Tip: You will learn more about Flexbox in our CSS Flexbox Chapter.

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