text-align

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Published Jun 30, 2021Updated Jun 25, 2024
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To set the text alignment of inline contents.

Syntax

text-align: <text-align-value>;

The text-align-value can be the following:

  • left
  • center
  • right

Example 1

In the example below, the text-align property for the p tag is set to center, which aligns the text inside the paragraph to the center:

p {
text-align: center;
}

The above code produces the following output:

Centered text inside the paragraph

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