Text-align class for inside a table

Question

Is there a set of classes in Twitter\'s Bootstrap framework that aligns text?

For example, I have some tables with $ totals that I want aligned to the r

Answer 1

Here is the simplest solution

You can assign the classes like text-center, left or right. The text will align accordingly to these classes. You do not have to make classes separately. These classes are inbuilt in BootStrap 3

    <h1 class="text-center"> Heading 1 </h1> 
    <h1 class="text-left"> Heading 2 </h1> 
    <h1 class="text-right"> Heading 3 </h1>

Check here: Demo

Answer 2

No, Bootstrap doesn't have a class for that, but this kind of class is considered a "utility" class, similar to the ".pull-right" class that @anton mentioned.

If you look at utilities.less you will see very few utility classes in Bootstrap, the reason being that this kind of class is generally frowned upon, and is recommended to be used for either: a) prototyping and development - so you can quickly build out your pages, then remove the pull-right and pull-left classes in favor of applying floats to more semantic classes or to the elements themselves, or b) when it's clearly more practical than a more semantic solution.

In your case, by your question it looks like you wish to have certain text align on the right in your table, but not all of it. Semantically, it would be better to do something like (I'm just going to make up a few classes here, except for the default bootstrap class, .table):

  <table class="table price-table">
    <thead>
      <th class="price-label">Total</th>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td class="price-value">$1,000,000.00</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

And just apply the text-align: left or text-align: right declarations to the price-value and price-label classes (or whatever classes work for you).

The problem with applying align-right as a class, is that if you want to refactor your tables you will have to redo the markup and the styles. If you use semantic classes you might be able to get away with refactoring only the CSS content. Plus, if are taking the time to apply a class to an element, it's best practice to try to assign semantic value to that class so that the markup is easier to navigate for other programmers (or you three months later).

One way to think of it is this: when you pose the question "What is this td for?", you will not get clarification from the answer "align-right".

Answer 3

Bootstrap 2.3 has utility classes text-left, text-right, and text-center, but they do not work in table cells. Until Bootstrap 3.0 is released (where they have fixed the issue) and I am able to make the switch, I have added this to my site CSS that is loaded after bootstrap.css:

.text-right {
    text-align: right !important;
}

.text-center {
    text-align: center !important;
}

.text-left {
    text-align: left !important;
}

Answer 4

Bootstrap 3

v3 Text Alignment Docs

<p class="text-left">Left aligned text.</p>
<p class="text-center">Center aligned text.</p>
<p class="text-right">Right aligned text.</p>
<p class="text-justify">Justified text.</p>
<p class="text-nowrap">No wrap text.</p>

Bootstrap 4

v4 Text Alignment Docs

<p class="text-xs-left">Left aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-xs-center">Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-xs-right">Right aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>

<p class="text-sm-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized SM (small) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-md-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized MD (medium) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-lg-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized LG (large) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-xl-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized XL (extra-large) or wider.</p>

Answer 5

We have five classes for that, which you can refer from here: http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/utilities/

<div class="text-left">Left aligned text.</div>
<div class="text-center">Center aligned text.</div>
<div class="text-right">Right aligned text.</div>
<div class="text-justify">Justified text.</div>
<div class="text-nowrap">No wrap text.</div>

Answer 6

In Bootstrap version 4. There some inbuilt classes to position text.

For centering table header and data text:

 <table>
    <tr>
      <th class="text-center">Text align center.</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="text-center">Text align center.</td>
    </tr>
  </table>

You can also use this classes to position any text.

<p class="text-left">Left aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-center">Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-right">Right aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>

<p class="text-sm-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized SM (small) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-md-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized MD (medium) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-lg-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized LG (large) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-xl-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized XL (extra-large) or wider</p>

For more details

Hope it's help you.