Align Items

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

Default class reference

Stretch

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

1. <div class="flex items-stretch ...">
2. <div class="py-4">1</div>
3. <div class="py-12">2</div>
4. <div class="py-8">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 ...">
2. <div class="h-12">1</div>
3. <div class="h-24">2</div>
4. <div class="h-16">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 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div>2</div>
4. <div>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 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div>2</div>
4. <div>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 ...">
2. <div class="pt-4 pb-6 ...">1</div>
3. <div class="pt-6 pb-10 ...">2</div>
4. <div class="pt-8 pb-4 ...">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.

1. <div class="items-stretch md:items-center ...">
2. <!-- ... -->
3. </div>

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

Customizing

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. extend: {
5. // ...
6. +       alignItems: ['hover', 'focus'],
7. }
8. }
9. }

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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