CSS justify-items Property

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Example

Align each grid item at the end of their grid cell, in the inline direction:

#container {
display: grid;
justify-items: end;
}

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Definition and Usage

The justify-items property is set on the grid container to give child elements (grid items) alignment in the inline direction.

For pages in English, inline direction is left to right and block direction is downward.

For this property to have any alignment effect, the grid items need available space around themselves in the inline direction.

Tip: To align grid items in block direction instead of inline direction, use align-items property.

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Default value:	legacy
Inherited:	no
Animatable:	no. Read about animatable
Version:	CSS3
JavaScript syntax:	object.style.justifyItems="center" Try it

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

Property
justify-items	57.0	16.0	45.0	10.1	44.0

CSS Syntax

Property Values

Value	Description	Play it
legacy	Default value. Grid items with justify-self value 'auto' only inherits grid container justify-items property value if it starts with 'legacy'. It exists to implement the legacy alignment behavior of HTML's 〈center〉 element and align attribute.	Demo ❯
normal	Dependant on layout context, but similar to 'stretch' for grid layout	Demo ❯
stretch	Stretches to fill the grid cell if inline-size (width) is not set.	Demo ❯
start	Align items at the start in the inline direction	Demo ❯
left	Align items to the left	Demo ❯
center	Align items to the center	Demo ❯
end	Align items at the end in the inline direction	Demo ❯
right	Align items to the right	Demo ❯
overflow-alignment	'safe' sets alignment of the item to 'start' if the content overflows 'unsafe' keeps the alignment value regardless of wether or not the item content overflows
baseline alignment	The element is aligned with the baseline of the parent.	Demo ❯
initial	Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial
inherit	Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit

More Examples

justify-items vs. justify-self

Alignment is set to 'center' from container, and 'right' on the grid item itself. Property value 'right' prevails:

#container {
  display: grid;
  justify-items: center;
}

.blue {
  justify-self: right;
}

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justify-items on absolutely positioned grid items

Alignment is set to 'right' on absolutely positioned grid items:

#container {
  display: grid;
  position: relative;
  justify-items: right;
}

.blue {
  position: absolute;
}

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writing-mode

With the writing-mode property value of the grid container element set to vertical-rl, the inline direction is downwards. The result is that the start of the container is moved from left side to top, and the end of the container is moved from right side to bottom:

#container {
justify-items: end;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}

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direction

With the direction property value of the grid container element set to 'rtl', the inline direction is right to left. The result is that the start of the container is moved from left side to right side, and the end of the container is moved from right side to left side:

#container {
justify-items: start;
direction: rtl;
}

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CSS tutorial: CSS grid

CSS tutorial: CSS positioning

CSS Reference: align-items property

CSS Reference: direction property

CSS Reference: grid property

CSS Reference: grid-template-columns property

CSS Reference: justify-self property

CSS Reference: position property

CSS Reference: writing-mode property

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