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title: P Align Attribute
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## P Align Attribute

### Important
This attribute is not supported in HTML5. It is recommended to use the [`text-align` CSS property](https://guide.freecodecamp.org/css/text-align).

To align the text inside a `<p>` tag, this attribute will help.

### Syntax
```html
<p align="position">Lorem Ipsum...</p>
```

### Attributes 
 
- **left**    -  Text aligns to the left            
- **right**   -  Text aligns to the right           
- **center**  -  Text aligns to the center          
- **justify** -  All lines of text have equal width 

### Example

```html
<html>
<body>
<p align="center">Paragraph align attribute example</p>
</body>
</html>
```

#### More Information:
* [CSS `text-align`](https://guide.freecodecamp.org/css/text-align)
* [W3 - HTML 4.01 Specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.1)
* [MDN - CSS Text Align](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align)
