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text-align

The text-align property describes how inline-level content of a block container is aligned.

Description

Values	left \| right \| center \| justify \| inherit
Initial value	a nameless value that acts as 'left' if 'direction' is 'ltr', 'right' if 'direction' is 'rtl'
Applies to	block containers
Inherited	Yes

Values

left
Aligns the inline text to the left.

right
Aligns the inline text to the left.

center
Centers the inline text.

justify
Stretches spaces and words in inline boxes.

inherit
Takes the same specified value as the property for the element's parent.

Example

Example A

[style.css]

 p {
   border: 1px solid black;
   text-align: center;
 }

[index.html]

  <body>
    <p>This is a paragraph</p>
  </body>

Example B

[style.css]

 p {
   width: 250px;
   border: 1px solid black;
   text-align: justify;
 }

[index.html]

  <body>
    <p>CSS is a Style Sheet Language for formatting the document content 
       (written in HTML or other markup language). You might be interested 
       by the CSS Working Group wiki too.</p>
  </body>

CSS Reference

The CSS specification defines the text-align property in 16.2 Alignment.