Article Categories
- All Categories
-
Data Structure
-
Networking
-
RDBMS
-
Operating System
-
Java
-
MS Excel
-
iOS
-
HTML
-
CSS
-
Android
-
Python
-
C Programming
-
C++
-
C#
-
MongoDB
-
MySQL
-
Javascript
-
PHP
Selected Reading
Set Text Alignment Working with CSS
Using CSS text-align property we can horizontally set the text of an element. We can set it to left, right, justify or center.
Syntax
The syntax of CSS text-align property is as follows −
Selector {
text-align: /*value*/
}
Example
The following exmples illustrate CSS text-align property −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
margin: auto;
padding: 8px;
max-width: 200px;
border: thin solid;
}
p {
text-align: right;
}
div:nth-child(3) {
text-align: center;
}
div:last-child {
text-align: justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Student Examination Details</h2>
<div>
<div>Student John</div>
<div>
Student Tom
<p>Did not appeared for the exams.</p>
</div>
<div>Student Brad</div>
<div>Did not appeared for only the last exam.</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output
This gives the following output −

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
td {
padding: 10px;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 21px yellow;
}
td:first-of-type {
text-align: right;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Demo Heading</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td>This is it!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Well, this is a demo text!</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Output
This gives the following output −

Advertisements
