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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="keywords" content="CSS align, CSS equivalent to align, valign, vertical alignment, horizontal, stylesheets"> <meta name="Description" content="Use CSS to align elements vertically and horizontally."> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.quackit.com/css/css_align.cfm"> <title>CSS align</title> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/pix/favicon96.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/pix/apple-touch-icon.png"> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Lato:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="/common/css/master.45.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <script async src="https://cdn.fuseplatform.net/publift/tags/2/3499/fuse.js"></script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-Q3H025ZKLN"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Q3H025ZKLN'); </script> </head> <body> <header class="site-header"> <div class="site-header-base"> <div class="site-logo"> <a title="Quackit Homepage" target="_top" href="/"><img src="/pix/quackit_logo_watermark.png" width="87" height="33" alt="Quackit Logo"></a> </div> <button id="site-nav-toggler" class="site-nav-toggler" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="site-nav"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> ☰ </button> </div> <nav id="site-nav" class="site-nav"> <div class="site-links"> <ul> <li><a href="/"><i class="fa fa-home"></i> <span class="sr-only">Home</span></a></li> <li><a href="/html/">HTML</a></li> <li><a href="/css/">CSS</a></li> <li><a href="/scripting/">Scripting</a></li> <li><a href="/database/">Database</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="site-search-top"> <form action="/search/" id="cse-search-box-bottom" class="site-search"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-6331358926293806:98x0fk-bbgi"> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10"> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"> <input type="text" name="q" size="20" class="site-search-input"> <button type="submit" name="sa" class="site-search-button"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></button> </div> </form> </div> </nav> </header> <div class="main"> <article class="content"> <h1 class="page-title">CSS align</h1> <div class="ad ad-top">  <div data-fuse="23059883623"></div> </div> <p>You may be familiar with the HTML <code>align</code> attribute (which has been discontinued as of <a href="/html_5/">HTML 5</a>). The <code>align</code> attribute could be used with tags such as <a href="/html/tags/html_table_tag.cfm"><code><table></code></a>, <a href="/html/tags/html_td_tag.cfm"><code><td></code></a>, and <a href="/html/tags/html_img_tag.cfm"><code><img></code></a> to specify the alignment of these elements. This attribute allowed you to align elements horizontally. HTML also has/had a <code>valign</code> attribute for aligning elements vertically. This has also been discontinued from HTML5.</p> <p>These attributes were discontinued in favor of using CSS to set the alignment of HTML elements.</p> <div class="ad">  <div data-fuse="23059883629"></div> </div> <p>There isn't actually a CSS <code>align</code> or CSS <code>valign</code> property. Instead, CSS has the <a href="/css/properties/css_text-align.cfm"><code>text-align</code></a> which applies to inline content of block-level elements, and <a href="/css/properties/css_vertical-align.cfm"><code>vertical-align</code></a> property which applies to inline level and table cells.</p> <h3>CSS <code>text-align</code> example</h3> <p>In this example, we use <code>text-align:right</code> to align the contents of the <a href="/html/tags/html_div_tag.cfm"><code><div></code></a> to the right.</p> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/lib/codemirror.js"></script> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/css/css.js"></script> <div class="code-only"> <textarea id="example1" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"><div style="border:1px solid black;padding:5px;height:50px;text-align:right;">
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</div></textarea> </div> <script> var exampleCode1 = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("example1"), { mode: "text/css", tabMode: "indent", styleActiveLine: false, lineNumbers: false, lineWrapping: true, theme: "q-dark" }); </script> <p>The css text-align property applies to the contents of the block-level element - it doesn't need to be text. For more information on usage, see the <a href="/css/properties/css_text-align.cfm"><code>text-align</code></a> property page.</p> <h3>CSS <code>vertical-align</code> example</h3> <p>Here, we align an image vertically using the <a href="/css/properties/css_vertical-align.cfm"><code>vertical-align</code></a> property.</p> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/text/css/text/css.js"></script> <div class="code-only"> <textarea id="example2" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"><div style="border:1px solid black;padding:5px;">
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