Text-align
The CSS text-align property specifies the alignment of inline content within a line box or block container.
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The CSS text-align property specifies the horizontal alignment of inline content within a block container or table cell.
- How it is used
- Aligns paragraph text and interface content in newspaper layouts, cards, and checkout carts.
- How deep it goes
- Works through declarations and their visible effects, including justification spacing and selector overrides, without exploring CSS layout internals.
- Examples
- Shows justified newspaper paragraphs, a centered profile card, aligned cart columns and number inputs, and a right-aligned security-code label.
- What you can do after
- Operates/configures it with CSS declarations to align text and inline images while choosing Flexbox when vertical alignment is also needed.
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The CSS text-align property specifies the horizontal alignment of inline content within an element.
- How it is used
- Customizes the horizontal placement of text in event sign-up, portfolio, and header layouts.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the property and demonstrates value changes, but does not explain browser layout internals.
- Examples
- Uses a centered portfolio main element, a left-aligned portfolio card, and a header title and tagline.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via CSS to switch content between centered and left-aligned layouts.
Related concepts
- CSS selectorconfigured by · A CSS selector is a pattern that identifies document elements by their names, attributes, relationships, states, or other conditions.
- text alignmentconfigures · Text alignment is the positioning of text within an allocated area relative to its edges, center, or another reference line.
- text boxconfigures · A text box is an interactive user-interface control for entering, displaying, or editing text.
- style propertykind of · A style property is a named setting or interface attribute that specifies or exposes a presentation characteristic of an element or view.
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