Alignment

CSS will get ignored in a Markdown file on GitHub. So this page is specifically for styling Markdown using HTML attributes instead.

Here we use the align attribute - on a div tag, p tag or img tag. With a value as "center" or "right".

If you use a tool to convert HTML to CSS, such as Jekyll, you can choose between this approach or using CSS (such as a CSS class to align center).

Examples

Align center

Code

<div align="center">

My _Markdown_ text.

More text.

Some SVG images:

[![MichaelCurrin - dev-cheatsheets](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=MichaelCurrin&message=dev-cheatsheets&color=blue&logo=github)](https://github.com/MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets)
[![stars - dev-cheatsheets](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets?style=social)](https://github.com/MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets)

</div>

Result

Note - this works fine on GitHub here but not in Jekyll - it just appears as plain text

My _Markdown_ text. More text. Some SVG images: [](https://github.com/MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets) [](https://github.com/MichaelCurrin/dev-cheatsheets)

Align right

Note the text comes after the image in the code, but the results shows the text as before on the left.

Note that this only works because of the width attribute on the img tag. Something like the div tag won’t have that. And using style to set width will work on a static site but not in plain GitHub markdown.

Code

<img width="50%" align="right" src="https://github-readme-streak-stats.herokuapp.com/?user=michaelcurrin" />

Paragraph of text.

Next line.

Last line.

Result

Paragraph of text.

Next line.

Last line.