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CSS The Solution

Why do we use text-align and not vertical-align?

What is the difference between these two? They do the same thing when I try them, so what is the difference between them?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

Basically, vertical-align specifies how the text should be aligned vertically in the element, and text-align specifies how it should be aligned horizontally