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Place items

The place items class sets the place-items property. It is a shorthand for setting the cross axis and the main axis. It controls how items are aligned inside their grid areas along both axes in a grid container.

In flexbox, justify-items is ignored, so place-items has no effect.

Overview

CSS Shortcut class Applied style 
place-items-center
 
place-items: center;
 
place-items-stretch
 
place-items: stretch;
 
place-items-start
 
place-items: start;
 
place-items-end
 
place-items: end;

Examples

Centre
place-items-center

These items are centred both vertically and horizontally within their grid areas.

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<div class="d-grid grid-cols-3 place-items-center">
  <p>1</p>
  <p>2</p>
  <p>3</p>
  <p>4</p>
  <p>5</p>
  <p>6</p>
</div>

Stretch
place-items-stretch

These items stretch to fill their grid areas both horizontally and vertically, if no fixed size is set.

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<div class="d-grid grid-cols-3 place-items-stretch">
  <p>1</p>
  <p>2</p>
  <p>3</p>
  <p>4</p>
  <p>5</p>
  <p>6</p>
</div>

Start
place-items-start

These items align to the start edge of both axes within their grid areas.

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<div class="d-grid grid-cols-3 place-items-start">
  <p>1</p>
  <p>2</p>
  <p>3</p>
  <p>4</p>
  <p>5</p>
  <p>6</p>
</div>

End
place-items-end

These items align to the end edge of both axes within their grid areas.

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<div class="d-grid grid-cols-3 place-items-end">
  <p>1</p>
  <p>2</p>
  <p>3</p>
  <p>4</p>
  <p>5</p>
  <p>6</p>
</div>

Conditional styling Apply this style to specific screen sizes Use a responsive layout prefix to apply this class only to a specified screen size. The available breakpoints are:

  • xs: > 480px
  • sm: > 640px
  • md: > 768px
  • lg: > 1024px
  • xl: > 1280px
  
<div class="xs:place-items-center ...">
  ...
</div>

Learn more about the responsive layout prefix.

2025-10-01