CSS text-align-last Property

The CSS text-align-last property sets the alignment of the last line of the text. It is one of the CSS3 properties.

The text-align-last property sets the alignment for all last lines within the selected element. If a <div> with three paragraphs in it, the text-align-last will apply to the last line of each of the paragraphs.

This property is supported with prefix -moz- for Firefox 12-Firefox 48, and is supported without prefix for Firefox 49-Firefox 65.

Initial Value	auto
Applies to	Block containers.
Inherited	Yes.
Animatable	No.
Version	CSS3
DOM Syntax	object.style.textAlignLast = "left";

Syntax

text-align-last: auto | left | right | center | justify | start | end | initial | inherit;

Example of the text-align-last property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-align: justify;
        -moz-text-align-last: right;/* For Firefox prior 58.0 */
        text-align-last: right;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-align-last property example</h2>
    <h3>text-align-last: right:</h3>
    <div>
      Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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Result

Example of the text-align-last property with the "start", "justify" and "center" values:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.example1 {
        text-align: justify;
        -moz-text-align-last: start;
        text-align-last: start;
      }
      div.example2 {
        text-align: justify;
        -moz-text-align-last: center;
        text-align-last: center;
      }
      div.example3 {
        text-align: justify;
        -moz-text-align-last: justify;
        text-align-last: justify;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-align-last property example</h2>
    <h3>Text-align-last: start:</h3>
    <div class="example1">
      Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
    </div>
    <h3>Text-align-last: center:</h3>
    <div class="example2">
      Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
    </div>
    <h3>Text-align-last: justify:</h3>
    <div class="example3">
      Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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Example of the text-align-last property with the "end" value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-align: justify;
        -moz-text-align-last: right;/* For Firefox prior 58.0 */
        text-align-last: end;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-align-last property example</h2>
    <h3>text-align-last: end:</h3>
    <div>
      <p>
        Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
      </p>
      <p>
        Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
      </p>
      <p>
        Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
      </p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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Values

Value	Description	Play it
auto	The last line is aligned to the left.This is the default value of this property.	Play it »
left	Aligns the last line to the left.	Play it »
right	Aligns the last line to the right.	Play it »
center	Aligns the last line to the center.	Play it »
justify	The last line is justified as the other lines.	Play it »
start	The last line is aligned at the beginning of the line.left if direction is left-to-right and right if direction is right-to-left.	Play it »
end	The last line is aligned at the end of the line. Right if direction is left-to-right, left if direction is right-to-left.	Play it »
initial	Makes the property use its default value.	Play it »
inherit	Inherits the property from its parents element.