HTML DOM Style textAlign Property


The DOM style textAlign property returns and modify the horizontal alignment of text in a block level element in an HTML document.

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

  • Returning textAlign

object.style.textAlign
  • 2. Modifying textAlign

object.style.textAlign = “value”

Example

Let us see an example of style textAlign property −

 Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   body {
      color: #000;
      background: lightblue;
      height: 100vh;
   }
   p {
      border: 2px solid #fff;
      margin: 1.5rem auto;
   }
   .btn {
      background: #db133a;
      border: none;
      height: 2rem;
      border-radius: 2px;
      width: 40%;
      display: block;
      color: #fff;
      outline: none;
      cursor: pointer;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>DOM Style textAlign Property Example</h1>
<p>This is paragraph 1 with some dummy text. This is paragraph 1 with some dummy text. This is paragraph 1 with some dummy text.</p>
<button onclick="add()" class="btn">Set textAlign</button>
<script>
   function add() {
      document.querySelector('p').style.textAlign = "center";
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

Click on “Set textAlign” button to align the text inside the paragraph element.

Updated on: 01-Jul-2020

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