text-align-last

Summary

The text-align-last CSS property describes how the last line of a block element or a line before line break is aligned in its parent block element.

Overview table

Initial value: auto
Applies to: block containers
Inherited: Yes
Media: visual
Computed value: specified value
Animatable: No
CSS Object Model Property: textAlignLast

Syntax

text-align-last: auto
text-align-last: center
text-align-last: end
text-align-last: justify
text-align-last: left
text-align-last: right
text-align-last: start

Values

auto: Default. Text is aligned like the other lines in the object, using the value of the text-align property.
start: The same as left if direction is left-to-right and right if direction is right-to-left.
end: The same as right if direction is left-to-right and left if direction is right-to-left.
left: Text is aligned to the left.
right: Text is aligned to the right.
center: The text is centered within the line box.
justify: Text is justified if ‘text-justify’ is ‘distribute’, and the same as start value if otherwise.

Examples

The following example shows an embedded style rule that justifies all the lines in the document’s p elements. This is sometimes found in East Asian typography.

<p class="normal">Simple example with "auto" value of text-align-last property. This paragraph needs to be really long in order to show how to work with text-align-last property. It only works because we set a width for this paragraph though.</p>

<p class="justified">Simple example with "justify" value of text-align-last property. In this case, the last line is also justified. This paragraph needs to be really long in order to show how to work with text-align-last property.</p>

View live example

.normal {
    width: 300px;
    text-align: justify;
    text-align-last: auto;
}

.justified {
    width: 300px;
    text-align: justify;
    text-align-last: justify;
}

Related specifications

CSS Text Module Level 3: W3C Working Draft

Attributions

Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]