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How to align text in HTML
To define the horizontal alignment of the text within an HTML element, you can use the CSS text-align property:
The CSS text-align syntax
To apply the text-align property, you need to define one out of six available values:
text-align: value;
Check out an example of using CSS text-align below:
h1 {
text-align: center;
}
h2 {
text-align: right;
}
h3 {
text-align: left;
}All the available properties for using text-align are explained in the table below:
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
center |
The default value. Makes CSS center text in an element |
left |
Makes CSS align text along the left edge of the element |
right |
Makes CSS align text along the right edge of the element |
justify |
Makes CSS justify text: the first and the last words are aligned to the edges of the element, and the content is spaced to fill the line |
start |
Works like left when the text direction is left-to-right and like right when it's right to left |
end |
Works like right when the text direction is left-to-right and like left when it's right to left |
Using text-align-last
You can also use the text-align-last property to define how the last line of the text should be aligned:
As with text-align, you only need to define one value. You can use all the values available to text-align, plus the auto keyword which is also the default value. Using auto makes CSS align the last line in the same manner the whole text is aligned.
Note: if
text-alignis set tojustify,autowill behave asstart.