CSS place-items Property

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

The CSS place-items property is the shorthand of align-items and justify-items property. The shorthand properties mean in CSS, that you can set the multiple properties values in a single property. So here the place-items property can hold the value of the align-items and justify-items property values.

Syntax:

place-items: align-items property value justify-items property value

Property Values: This property accepts all the possible combination values that can make by the align-items and justify-items property values.

auto: If the items have no parents then this property is used that defines the absolute positioned.
normal: This property dependent on the layout mode we are in.
start: This property used to align flex items from the start of the container.
end: This property used to align flex items from the end of the container.
flex-start: This property displays the lines at the start of the flex container.
flex-end: This property displays the flex lines at the end of the flex container.
center: This property aligns flex items at the center of the container.
self-start: This property will be packed flush to the edge of the alignment container of the start side of the item.
self-end: This property will be packed flush to the edge of the alignment container of the end side of the item.
space-evenly: This property defines that the positioned with equal spacing between them but the spacing from corners differ.
stretch: This property defines that the line stretched to take the remaining space of the flex container. It is the default value.