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- Property
- text-align
- Values
- left, right, center, justify
- Initial
- UA specific
- Inherited
- yes
This property describes how text is aligned within the element. The actual justification algorithm used is UA and human language dependent.
Example:
DIV.center { text-align: center }
Since 'text-align' inherits, all block-level elements inside the 'DIV' element with 'CLASS=center' will be centered. Note that alignments are relative to the width of the element, not the canvas. If 'justify' is not supported, the UA will supply a replacement. Typically, this will be 'left' for western languages.
CSS1 core: UAs may treat 'justify' as 'left' or 'right', depending on whether the element's default writing direction is left-to-right or right-to-left, respectively.