Align Self

Utilities for controlling how an individual flex or grid item is positioned along its container’s cross axis.

Class reference

Auto

Use self-auto to align an item based on the value of the container’s align-items property:

<div class="flex items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-auto flex-1 text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Start

Use self-start to align an item to the start of the container’s cross axis, despite the container’s align-items value:

<div class="flex items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-start flex-1 text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Center

Use self-center to align an item along the center of the container’s cross axis, despite the container’s align-items value:

<div class="flex items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-center flex-1 text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

End

Use self-end to align an item to the end of the container’s cross axis, despite the container’s align-items value:

<div class="flex items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-end flex-1 text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Stretch

Use self-stretch to stretch an item to fill the container’s cross axis, despite the container’s align-items value:

<div class="flex items-start bg-gray-200 h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-stretch flex-1 text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Responsive

To control the alignment of a flex item at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing utility class. For example, use md:self-end to apply the self-end utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

For more information about Tailwind’s responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.

all

sm

md

lg

xl

<div class="items-stretch ...">
  <!-- ... -->
  <div class="self-auto sm:self-start md:self-end lg:self-center xl:self-stretch ...">2</div>
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

1

2

3

Customizing

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for align-self utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the align-self utilities by modifying the alignSelf property in the variants section of your tailwind.config.js file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    variants: {
      // ...
-     alignSelf: ['responsive'],
+     alignSelf: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
    }
  }

Disabling

If you don’t plan to use the align-self utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the alignSelf property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    corePlugins: {
      // ...
+     alignSelf: false,
    }
  }

← Align Items   Place Content →