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Text align

The text align class sets the text-align property. It controls the horizontal alignment of text within its container.

Overview

CSS Shortcut class Applied style 
text-center
 
text-align: center;
 
text-justify
 
text-align: justify;
 
text-left
 
text-align: left;
 
text-right
 
text-align: right;

Examples

Centre
text-center

This text is centred within its container.

<p class="text-center">
  This text is centred within its container.
</p>

Justify
text-justify

This text is stretched to align evenly along the right and left edges of its container.

<p class="text-justify">
  This text is stretched to align evenly along the right and left edges of its container.
</p>

Left
text-left

This text is aligned to the left edge of its container.

<p class="text-left">
  This text is aligned to the left edge of its container.
</p>

Right
text-right

This text is aligned to the right edge of its container.

<p class="text-right">
  This text is aligned to the right edge of its container.
</p>

Conditional styling Apply this style to specific screen sizes Use a responsive layout prefix to apply this class only to a specified screen size. The available breakpoints are:

  • xs: > 480px
  • sm: > 640px
  • md: > 768px
  • lg: > 1024px
  • xl: > 1280px
  
<div class="xs:text-center ...">
  ...
</div>

Learn more about the responsive layout prefix.

2025-10-01