Place Self

v1.8.0+

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

Auto

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

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

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

Center

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

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

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

Stretch

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

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.

<div class="place-self-start md:place-self-end">
  <!-- ... -->

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

Customizing

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:

Disabling

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    corePlugins: {
      // ...
+     placeSelf: false,
    }

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