CSS Property text-align
text-align sets the horizontal alignment of text.
Summary
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Initial value | left if direction is ltr, and right if direction is rtl |
| Inherited | Yes. |
| Version | CSS1 |
| JavaScript syntax | object.style.textAlign="right" |
| Applies to | Block-level elements. |
CSS Syntax
text-align: center | justify | left | right | inherit
Property Values
The property values are listed in the following table.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| left | Align the text to the left |
| right | Align the text to the right |
| center | Center the text |
| justify | justify to make line to have same width |
| inherit | inherit the text-align property from the parent element |
Browser compatibility
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text-align |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Example
An example showing how to use text-align CSS property.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {<!-- w w w .j a v a2s .c o m-->
width: 500px;
}
td.leftAlign {
text-align: left;
}
td.rightAlign {
text-align: right;
}
td.center {
text-align: center;
}
td.justify {
text-align: justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr><td class="leftAlign">Here is some text</td></tr>
<tr><td class="rightAlign">Here is some text</td></tr>
<tr><td class="center">Here is some text</td></tr>
<tr><td class="justify">Here is some text</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>