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Typography

Text Align

Utilities for controlling the alignment of text.

Quick reference

ClassDescription
text-lefttext-align: left
text-centertext-align: center
text-righttext-align: right
text-justifytext-align: justify
text-starttext-align: start
text-endtext-align: end

Basic usage

Setting the text alignment

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

In some respects the force was electricity, but it was of a higher energy order, containing inherent magnetic properties in a complete union of a kind only vaguely suggested by the term “electromagnetic,” in which the two forces involved are more or less mutually exclusive, the one giving rise to the other.

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<p class="text-left">In some respects ...</p>

In some respects the force was electricity, but it was of a higher energy order, containing inherent magnetic properties in a complete union of a kind only vaguely suggested by the term “electromagnetic,” in which the two forces involved are more or less mutually exclusive, the one giving rise to the other.

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<p class="text-center">In some respects ...</p>

In some respects the force was electricity, but it was of a higher energy order, containing inherent magnetic properties in a complete union of a kind only vaguely suggested by the term “electromagnetic,” in which the two forces involved are more or less mutually exclusive, the one giving rise to the other.

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<p class="text-right">In some respects ...</p>

In some respects the force was electricity, but it was of a higher energy order, containing inherent magnetic properties in a complete union of a kind only vaguely suggested by the term “electromagnetic,” in which the two forces involved are more or less mutually exclusive, the one giving rise to the other.

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<p class="text-justify">In some respects ...</p>

Applying conditionally

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:text-center to apply the text-center utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

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<p class="text-left md:text-center">
  <!-- ... -->
</p>