Place Self

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

Default 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 gap-2 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-auto ...">2</div>
4. <div>3</div>
5. <div>4</div>
6. <div>5</div>
7. <div>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 gap-2 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-start ...">2</div>
4. <div>3</div>
5. <div>4</div>
6. <div>5</div>
7. <div>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 gap-2 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-center ...">2</div>
4. <div>3</div>
5. <div>4</div>
6. <div>5</div>
7. <div>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 gap-2 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-end ...">2</div>
4. <div>3</div>
5. <div>4</div>
6. <div>5</div>
7. <div>6</div>
8. </div>

Stretch

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

1. <div class="grid grid-cols-3 gap-2 ...">
2. <div>1</div>
3. <div class="place-self-stretch ...">2</div>
4. <div>3</div>
5. <div>4</div>
6. <div>5</div>
7. <div>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

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

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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