CSS Property: text-align
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The CSS (CSS1) text-align property indicates how text
in an element should be aligned.
Valid property values
(other than inherit
and initial) are:
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Value
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Description
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center
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Centres the text
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justify
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Justifies text, i.e.
stretches lines to encompass whole width. The precise way justification then
works is set by the text-justify
property.
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left
|
Aligns text to left
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right
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Aligns text to right
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Default Value:
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left if direction is ltr (left-to-right), right if direction is rtl (right-to-left)
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JavaScript syntax:
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e.g. object.style.textAlign="justify"
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Inherited:
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Yes
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Animatable:
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No
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EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head>
<style>
div {width: 300px; border: 1px solid black;}
div.x1 {text-align: center;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Note: not all browsers seem to support this property effectively for some element types<br><br>
1. Element with default property<br>
<div>Some text that is longer than one line, so has multiple lines that illustrate different text alignments</div><br><br>
2. Element set using in-file HTML style
<div class="x1">Some text that is longer than one line, so has multiple lines that illustrate different text alignments</div><br><br>
3. Element set using JavaScript
<div id="x2">Some text that is longer than one line, so has multiple lines that illustrate different text alignments</div>
<script>
document.getElementById("x2").style.columnSpan = "all";
document.getElementById("x2").style.textAlign = "center";
</script>
</body>
</html>
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FUNCTION THAT MAY ASSIST IN TESTING WHETHER FEATURE IS SUPPORTED:
function isSupportedCSSPropertyTextAlign() {
var x = document.createElement("DIV"); x.style.textAlign = "center"; return (window.getComputedStyle(x, null).textAlign == "center");
} |
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