Place Self

Tailwind CSS version: v1.8.0+

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

Class reference

Class	Properties
.place-self-auto	place-self: auto;
.place-self-start	place-self: start;
.place-self-end	place-self: end;
.place-self-center	place-self: center;
.place-self-stretch	place-self: stretch;

Auto

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

<div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="place-self-auto 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>

Start

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="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <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:

<div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="place-self-center 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>

End

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="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <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">5</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:

<div class="grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch bg-gray-200 h-48">
  <div class="text-gray-700 text-center bg-gray-400 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="place-self-stretch 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>

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

Responsive and pseudo-class 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: {
      // ...
-     placeSelf: ['responsive'],
+     placeSelf: ['responsive', '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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