Align text to the bottom using HTML CSS

There are a couple of ways you can align text to the bottom of a div using CSS. In this post, I will show you a couple of ways to do it.

CSS for aligning text to the bottom

Bottom aligned text inside a div
Bottom-aligned text using CSS flexbox

The first and easiest way is using flexbox. Only two lines of CSS can make it happen.

.container {
  display: flex;
  align-items: flex-end;
}

I have a CSS class of container for the div and that’s why I used the selector above. See my HTML markup below.

<div class="container">
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.</p>
</div>

Example 2: Using CSS position

In this example, I will use the same HTML markup. And align the text to the bottom of the div.

Here is my CSS below.

.container {
  position: relative;
}
.container p {
  position: absolute;
  left: 30px;
  bottom: 30px;
}

I had 30px padding on the container div (all 4 directions). So in my CSS, the left & bottom value is 30 pixels. But you can adjust the value as you want.

If you want to learn more about how CSS position property works, see this post that will explain it in detail.

Learn & practice CSS with real-world examples
Learn basic CSS from the ground up.
Build real projects in HTML CSS.
Make your hands dirty

Build HTML CSS projects

About us templatePreview
Team pagePreview
Testimonial pagePreview
Testimonial sliderPreview
Contact pagePreview
Multipage websitePreview
Portfolio websitePreview
Animated portfolioPreview
Computer science portfolioPreview
Navigation bar (without JS)N/A
Create a hamburger menuPreview
Create a navigation menu in two waysN/A
Footer templatesPreview
Hero bannerPreview
Background sliderPreview
Card templates (HTML, CSS)Preview
Animated cardsPreview
Three-column layout templatePreview
Two column layoutPreview
Breadcrumb navigationN/A
Progress bar templatePreview
Thank you pagePreview
Resume templatePreview
Coming soon templatePreview
Landing page templatePreview
Roofing website templatePreview

Conclusion

Do you know any other ways to align text to the bottom of a container? Let me know.

In this post, I had a 300px min-height of the container div. I did this to create sufficient space to mess around.

To align text to the bottom, you can either use CSS flexbox or position.