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Nov 15, 2018 am 10:26 AM

Alignment

The position of text is essential in web page layout. Today’s article will share with you how to use CSS to achieve left, right and center alignment of text. Let’s take a look at the specific content.

To set text alignment (left alignment, right alignment, center alignment), the CSS property you need to use is the text-align property. (Related recommendations: CSS Learning Manual)

Grammar format:

text-align :(文本位置）

Position	Description
left	Left alignment
right	Right alignment
center	Align in the center
justify	Align both ends

Continue us Let’s take a look at the setting methods of these four alignment methods respectively.

Setting method of text left alignment:

text-align：left;

Setting method of text right alignment:

text-align：right;

Setting method of text center alignment :

text-align：center;

Text alignment setting method:

text-align：justify;

Let’s look at the specific code example 1:

TextAlign.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="TextAlign.css" />
    <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
  <div class="TextLeft">
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  </div>
  <div class="TextRight">
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  </div>
  <div class="TextCenter">
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  </div>
  <div class="TextJustify">
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    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

TextAlign.css

.TextLeft{
    margin-top:24px;    
    margin-left:32px;    
    border:1px solid #ff6a00;    
    width:480px;    
    text-align:left;
}
.TextRight {
    margin-top: 24px;    
    margin-left: 32px;    
    border: 1px solid #ff6a00;    
    width: 480px;    
    text-align: right;
}
.TextCenter {
    margin-top: 24px;    
    margin-left: 32px;    
    border: 1px solid #ff6a00;    
    width: 480px;    
    text-align: center;
}
.TextJustify {
    margin-top: 24px;    
    margin-left: 32px;    
    border: 1px solid #ff6a00;    
    width: 480px;    
    text-align: justify;    
    text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
}

Display results

Use a web browser to display the above HTML file. The effect shown below will be displayed.

How to use CSS to align text left, right and center

Code Example 2:

Text left aligned:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style type="text/css">
.leftText{
  text-align:left; 
  }
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="leftText">左对齐</div>
</body>
</html>

Text aligned right:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style type="text/css">
.rightText{
  text-align:right; 
  }
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="rightText">右对齐</div>
</body>
</html>

Centered alignment:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style type="text/css">
.centerText{
  text-align:center; 
  }
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="centerText">居中对齐</div>
</body>
</html>

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