Align Items

Utilities for controlling how flex and grid items are positioned along a container’s cross axis.

Class reference

Stretch

Use items-stretch to stretch items to fill the container’s cross axis:

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

Start

Use items-start to align items to the start of the container’s cross axis:

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

Center

Use items-center to align items along the center of the container’s cross axis:

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

End

Use items-end to align items to the end of the container’s cross axis:

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

Baseline

Use items-baseline to align items along the container’s cross axis such that all of their baselines align:

1. <div class="flex items-baseline bg-gray-200 h-24">
2. <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2 text-base">1</div>
3. <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2 text-2xl">2</div>
4. <div class="flex-1 text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2 text-lg">3</div>
5. </div>

Responsive

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

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

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

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Customizing

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

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

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

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

1. // tailwind.config.js
2. module.exports = {
3. variants: {
4. // ...
5. -     alignItems: ['responsive'],
6. +     alignItems: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
7. }
8. }

Disabling

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

1. // tailwind.config.js
2. module.exports = {
3. corePlugins: {
4. // ...
5. +     alignItems: false,
6. }
7. }

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