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 September 2015.

* 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.

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Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

css
/* 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 valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:
Applies toall elements
Inheritedno
Computed valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:
Animation typediscrete

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

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

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

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
place-items
anchor-center
Experimental
Supported in Flex Layout
Supported in Grid Layout

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also