Text Properties Text Alignment

Text Properties

Word Spacing
Letter Spacing
Text Decoration
Vertical Alignment
Text Transformation
Text Alignment
Text Indentation
Line Height

Appearance:

text-align: <value>

Possible Values:

left | right | center | justify

Initial Value:

Determined by browser

Applies to:

Block-level elements

Inherited:

Yes

The text-align property can be applied to block-level elements (P, H1, etc.) to give the alignment of the element's text. This property is similar in function to HTML's ALIGN attribute on paragraphs, headings, and divisions.

Some examples follow:

H1 { text-align: center }
P.newspaper { text-align: justify }