Vertical Alignment

Baseline

Use align-baseline to align the baseline of an element with the baseline of its parent.

Top

Use align-top to align the top of an element and its descendants with the top of the entire line.

Middle

Use align-middle to align the middle of an element with the baseline plus half the x-height of the parent.

Bottom

Use align-bottom to align the bottom of an element and its descendants with the bottom of the entire line.

Text Top

Use align-text-top to align the top of an element with the top of the parent element’s font.

Text Bottom

Use align-text-bottom to align the bottom of an element with the bottom of the parent element’s font.

Responsive

To control the vertical alignment only at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing vertical align utility. For example, adding the class md:align-top to an element would apply the align-top utility at medium screen sizes and above.

<div class="relative">
  <span class="align-middle md:align-top ...">...</span>
  <span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.</span>
</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 vertical-alignment utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the vertical-alignment utilities by modifying the verticalAlign 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: {
        // ...
+       verticalAlign: ['hover', 'focus'],
      }
    }
  }

Disabling

If you don't plan to use the vertical-alignment utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the verticalAlign property to false in the corePlugins section of your config file:

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