CSS text-align
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:
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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:

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