CSS place-items Property
The CSS place-items property is the shorthand of align-items and justify-items property. The shorthand properties mean in CSS, that you can set the multiple properties values in a single property. So here the place-items property can hold the value of the align-items and justify-items property values.
Syntax:
place-items: align-items property value justify-items property value
Property Values: This property accepts all the possible combination values that can make by the align-items and justify-items property values.
- auto: If the items have no parents then this property is used that defines the absolute positioned.
- normal: This property dependent on the layout mode we are in.
- start: This property used to align flex items from the start of the container.
- end: This property used to align flex items from the end of the container.
- flex-start: This property displays the lines at the start of the flex container.
- flex-end: This property displays the flex lines at the end of the flex container.
- center: This property aligns flex items at the center of the container.
- self-start: This property will be packed flush to the edge of the alignment container of the start side of the item.
- self-end: This property will be packed flush to the edge of the alignment container of the end side of the item.
- space-evenly: This property defines that the positioned with equal spacing between them but the spacing from corners differ.
- stretch: This property defines that the line stretched to take the remaining space of the flex container. It is the default value.
Below examples illustrate the CSS place-items property:
Example 1: In this example, we will use star place-items: flex-start property value.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>CSS place-items Property</title> <style> h1 { color: green; } #container { display: flex; height: 200px; width: 460px; flex-wrap: wrap; background-color: gray; /* place-items can be changed in the live sample */ place-items: flex-start; } div>div { border: 2px solid black; width: 60px; background-color: green; color: white; } .short { font-size: 12px; height: 30px; } .tall { font-size: 14px; height: 40px; } </style></head><body> <center> <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> <b>CSS place-items Property</b> <div id="container"> <div class="short">Geeks</div> <div class="short"> Computer<br /> Science </div> <div class="tall"> Geeks<br /> for </div> <div class="tall"> Portal<br /> for </div> <div class="tall"></div> </div> </center></body></html> |
Output:
Example 2: Here we will use place-items: flex-end property value.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>CSS place-content Property</title> <style> h1 { color: green; } #container { display: flex; height: 200px; width: 460px; flex-wrap: wrap; background-color: gray; /* place-items can be changed in the live sample */ place-items: flex-end; } div>div { border: 2px solid black; width: 60px; background-color: green; color: white; } .short { font-size: 12px; height: 30px; } .tall { font-size: 14px; height: 40px; } </style></head><body> <center> <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> <b>CSS place-items Property</b> <div id="container"> <div class="short">Geeks</div> <div class="short"> Computer<br /> Science </div> <div class="tall"> Geeks<br /> for </div> <div class="tall"> Portal<br /> for </div> <div class="tall"></div> </div> </center></body></html> |
Output:
Browser Versions:
- Google Chrome 59
- Edge 79
- Firefox 45
- Opera 46
- Safari 11
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