Text Alignment

Utilities for controlling the alignment of text.

Class reference

Usage

Control the text alignment of an element using the .text-left, .text-center, .text-right, and .text-justify utilities.

<p class="text-left ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...</p>
<p class="text-center ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...</p>
<p class="text-right ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...</p>
<p class="text-justify ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...</p>

Responsive

To control the text alignment of an element at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing text alignment utility. For example, use md:text-center to apply the text-center utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

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

<p class="text-left sm:text-center md:text-right lg:text-justify xl:text-center ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...</p>

Customizing

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for text alignment utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the text alignment utilities by modifying the textAlign 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: {
    // ...
-   textAlign: ['responsive'],
+   textAlign: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
 }
}

Disabling

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

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