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Place Self

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

Default class reference

Class
Properties
place-self-autoplace-self: auto;
place-self-startplace-self: start;
place-self-endplace-self: end;
place-self-centerplace-self: center;
place-self-stretchplace-self: stretch;

Auto

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

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

Start

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

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

Center

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

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

End

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

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

Stretch

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

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

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

  // tailwind.config.js
  module.exports = {
    variants: {
      extend: {
        // ...
+       placeSelf: ['hover', 'focus'],
      }
    }
  }

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:

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