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Align Self

Utilities for controlling how an individual flex item is positioned along its container's cross axis.

Class reference

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

Auto Default

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

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<div class="flex items-stretch bg-grey-lighter h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-auto flex-1 text-grey-darkest text-center bg-grey px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Start

Use .self-start to align an item to the start of the flex container's cross axis, despite the container's align-items value:

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<div class="flex items-stretch bg-grey-lighter h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-start flex-1 text-grey-darkest text-center bg-grey px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Center

Use .self-center to align an item along the center of the flex container's cross axis, despite the container's align-items value:

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<div class="flex items-stretch bg-grey-lighter h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-center flex-1 text-grey-darkest text-center bg-grey px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

End

Use .self-end to align an item to the end of the flex container's cross axis, despite the container's align-items value:

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<div class="flex items-stretch bg-grey-lighter h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-end flex-1 text-grey-darkest text-center bg-grey px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Stretch

Use .self-stretch to stretch an item to fill the flex container's cross axis, despite the container's align-items value:

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<div class="flex items-start bg-grey-lighter h-24">
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
  <div class="self-stretch flex-1 text-grey-darkest text-center bg-grey px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
  <div class="flex-1 text-grey-darker text-center bg-grey-light px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>

Responsive

To control the alignment of a flex item at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing utility class. For example, use md:self-end to apply the self-end utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

For more information about Tailwind's responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.

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Customizing

Responsive and State Variants

By default, only responsive variants are generated for align-self utilities.

You can control which variants are generated for the align-self utilities by modifying the flexbox property in the modules section of your Tailwind config file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

{
// ...
modules: {
    // ...
-   flexbox: ['responsive'],
+   flexbox: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus', 'active', 'group-hover'],
}
}

Note that modifying the flexbox property will affect which variants are generated for all Flexbox utilities, not just the align-self utilities.

Disabling

If you don't plan to use the align-self utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the flexbox property to false in the modules section of your config file:

{
// ...
modules: {
    // ...
-   flexbox: ['responsive'],
+   flexbox: false,
}
}

Note that modifying the flexbox property will affect which variants are generated for all Flexbox utilities, not just the align-self utilities.