CSS Properties: How to align the last line of a paragraph element to the right

Last update on February 24 2024 12:26:57 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to align the last line of a paragraph element to the right</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Styles all paragraph elements */
    text-align: justify; /* Sets text alignment to justify */
    -moz-text-align-last: right; /* Mozilla-specific property for aligning the last line to the right */
    text-align-last: right; /* Sets the alignment of the last line of the paragraph to the right */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2><strong>w3resource Tutorial</strong></h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading with bold text "w3resource Tutorial" -->

<p><!-- Begins a paragraph -->
CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.
</p><!-- Ends the paragraph -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to align the last line of a paragraph element to the right.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The p selector styles all paragraph elements.
text-align: justify; aligns the text of the paragraphs to justify, which causes the lines to spread out to fill the width of the container evenly.
-moz-text-align-last: right; and text-align-last: right; ensure that the last line of the paragraph is aligned to the right.
The paragraph contains a lengthy text demonstrating the alignment behavior.

Live Demo :

See the Pen text-align-last-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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