---
title: Vertical alignment
description: Easily change the vertical alignment of inline, inline-block, inline-table, and table cell elements.
---

Change the alignment of elements with the [`vertical-alignment`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-align) utilities. Please note that vertical-align only affects inline, inline-block, inline-table, and table cell elements.

Choose from `.align-baseline`, `.align-top`, `.align-middle`, `.align-bottom`, `.align-text-bottom`, and `.align-text-top` as needed.

To vertically center non-inline content (like `<div>`s and more), use our [flex box utilities]([[docsref:/utilities/flex#align-items]]).

With inline elements:

<Example code={`<span class="align-baseline">baseline</span>
<span class="align-top">top</span>
<span class="align-middle">middle</span>
<span class="align-bottom">bottom</span>
<span class="align-text-top">text-top</span>
<span class="align-text-bottom">text-bottom</span>`} />

With table cells:

<Example code={`<table style="height: 100px;">
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td class="align-baseline">baseline</td>
        <td class="align-top">top</td>
        <td class="align-middle">middle</td>
        <td class="align-bottom">bottom</td>
        <td class="align-text-top">text-top</td>
        <td class="align-text-bottom">text-bottom</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>`} />

## CSS

### Sass utilities API

Vertical align utilities are declared in our utilities API in `scss/_utilities.scss`. [Learn how to use the utilities API.]([[docsref:/utilities/api#using-the-api]])

<ScssDocs name="utils-vertical-align" file="scss/_utilities.scss" />