Place Self

Tailwind CSS version

v1.8.0+

Utilities for controlling how an individual item is justified and aligned at the same time.

Class reference

Auto

Use place-self-auto to align an item based on the value of the container’s place-items property:

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
2. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-auto text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
4. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
5. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">4</div>
6. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">5</div>
7. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">6</div>
8. </div>

Start

Use place-self-start to align an item to the start on both axes:

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
2. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-start text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
4. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
5. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">4</div>
6. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">5</div>
7. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">6</div>
8. </div>

Center

Use place-self-center to align an item at the center on both axes:

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
2. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-center text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
4. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
5. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">4</div>
6. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">5</div>
7. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">6</div>
8. </div>

End

Use place-self-end to align an item to the end on both axes:

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
2. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-end text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
4. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
5. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">4</div>
6. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">5</div>
7. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">6</div>
8. </div>

Stretch

Use place-self-stretch to stretch an item on both axes:

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
2. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-stretch text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-500 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
4. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
5. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">4</div>
6. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">5</div>
7. <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">6</div>
8. </div>

Responsive

To place an item at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing place-self utility. For example, use md:place-self-end to apply the place-self-end utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

1. <div class="place-self-start md:place-self-end">
2. <!-- ... -->
3. </div>

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

Customizing

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for place-self utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the place-self utilities by modifying the placeSelf 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. -     placeSelf: ['responsive'],
6. +     placeSelf: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
7. }
8. }

Disabling

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

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

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