text-align in md-grid-tile (Angular Material) doesn't work

Question

text-align in Angular Material doesn\'t work.

{{video         


        

Answer 1

Target div elements inside mat-grid-tile with a width of 100 percent.

my.component.scss

mat-grid-tile div {
  width: 100%;
  text-align: left;
}

my.component.html

<mat-grid-list cols="12">
  <mat-grid-tile colspan="4">
    <img [src]="hero.avatarUrl" i18n-alt alt="Hero avatar" />
  </mat-grid-tile>

  <mat-grid-tile colspan="8">
    <div>
      <h1>
        {{ hero.firstName }}
        {{ hero.lastName }}
      </h1>
    </div>
  </mat-grid-tile>
</mat-grid-list>

Answer 2

You could simply put a span or div tag around your text inside md-grid-tile:

<md-grid-tile>
    <div class="text-inside-grid">{{ video.title }}</div>
</md-grid-tile>

and then style it:

.text-inside-grid {
  position: absolute;
  left: 5px;
}

Answer 3

Another alternative with flex-layout (and using the latest 'mat-' prefix):

<mat-grid-tile>
    <div fxFlex fxLayoutAlign="start center">{{ video.title }}</div>
</mat-grid-tile>

Answer 4

for those who have problems getting this example to work in angular2 you might need to add the ::ng-deep selector to the css for the figure

<md-grid-tile class="video-title">
    {{ video.title }}
</md-grid-tile>

css

 .video-title > ::ng-deep figure {
     justify-content: flex-start !important;
 }

*updated /deep/ to ::ng-deep because /deep/ was deprecated

Answer 5

I did it!

<md-grid-tile>{{video.created}}</md-grid-tile>
<md-grid-tile>{{video.code</md-grid-tile>

<md-grid-tile style="text-align: left;" class="video-title">
    {{ video.title }}
</md-grid-tile>

<md-grid-tile>{{video.playtime}}</md-grid-tile>

css

.video-title > figure {
    justify-content: flex-start !important;
}