place-items

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The CSS place-items shorthand property aligns items along both the block and inline directions at once. It sets the values of the align-items and justify-items properties. If the second value is not set, the first value is also used for it.

Try it

place-items: center stretch;

place-items: center start;

place-items: start end;

place-items: end center;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="example-container">
    <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
      <div>One</div>
      <div>Two</div>
      <div>Three</div>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

#example-element {
  border: 1px solid #c5c5c5;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
  grid-auto-rows: 80px;
  grid-gap: 10px;
  width: 220px;
}

#example-element > div {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.2);
  border: 3px solid blue;
}

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

/* Positional alignment */
place-items: center;
place-items: normal start;
place-items: center normal;
place-items: start legacy;
place-items: end normal;
place-items: self-start legacy;
place-items: self-end normal;
place-items: flex-start legacy;
place-items: flex-end normal;
place-items: anchor-center;

/* Baseline alignment */
place-items: baseline normal;
place-items: first baseline legacy;
place-items: last baseline normal;
place-items: stretch legacy;

/* Global values */
place-items: inherit;
place-items: initial;
place-items: revert;
place-items: revert-layer;
place-items: unset;

Values

One of the following forms:

  • A single align-items value, which is used to set alignment in both block and inline directions.
  • An align-items value, which sets alignment in the block direction, followed by a justify-items value, which sets alignment in the inline direction.

Formal definition

Initial value as each of the properties of the shorthand:
Applies to all elements
Inherited no
Computed value as each of the properties of the shorthand:
Animation type discrete

Formal syntax

place-items = 
  <'align-items'> <'justify-items'>?  

<align-items> = 
  normal                                    |
  stretch                                   |
  <baseline-position>                       |
  [ <overflow-position>? <self-position> ]  |
  anchor-center                             

<justify-items> = 
  normal                                              |
  stretch                                             |
  <baseline-position>                                 |
  <overflow-position>? [ <self-position> | left | right ]  |
  legacy                                              |
  legacy && [ left | right | center ]                 |
  anchor-center                                       

<baseline-position> = 
  [ first | last ]?  &&
  baseline           

<overflow-position> = 
  unsafe  |
  safe    

<self-position> = 
  center      |
  start       |
  end         |
  self-start  |
  self-end    |
  flex-start  |
  flex-end

Examples

Placing items in a flex container

In flexbox justify-self or justify-items do not apply, as on the main axis items are treated as a group. Therefore, the second value will be ignored.

CSS

#container {
  height: 200px;
  width: 240px;
  place-items: stretch; /* You can change this value by selecting another option in the list */
  background-color: #8c8c8c;
  display: flex;
}

Result

Placing items in a grid container

The following grid container has items which are smaller than the grid areas they are placed in, therefore place-items will move them in the block and inline dimensions.

CSS

#grid-container {
  height: 200px;
  width: 240px;
  place-items: stretch; /* You can change this value by selecting another option in the list */
  background-color: #8c8c8c;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
}

#grid-container > div {
  width: 50px;
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3
# place-items-property

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android
place-items 59 79 45 46 11 59 45 43 11 7.0 59
anchor-center 125 125 No 111 No 125 No 83 No 27.0 125
flex_context 59 79 45 46 11 59 45 43 11 7.0 59
grid_context 59 79 45 46 11 59 45 43 11 7.0 59

See also

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