CSS textalign Property (original) (raw)

CSS text-align Property

Last Updated : 21 May, 2026

The text-align property in CSS is used to control the horizontal alignment of text inside an element.

• Aligns text to left, right, center, or justify.
• Applies to block-level elements like
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• Inherited by child elements from the parent.
• Common values: left, right, center, justify.

**Syntax:

text-align: left|right|center|justify|initial|inherit;

**Default Value: left if the direction is ltr, and right if the direction is rtl

**Property Value

• **left: It is used to set the text alignment to the left. This is the default property.
• **right: It is used to set the text-alignment to right.
• **center: It is used to set the text alignment into the center.
• **justify: justify is used to spread the words into the complete line i.e., by stretching the content of an element.
• **initial: initial is used to set an element’s CSS property to its default value.
• **inherit: inherit is used to inherit a property to an element from its parent element property value.

Please refer to the CSS Align article for further details.

**Example: This example illustrates the use of the text-align property, to align it to specified values.

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