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title: "Flexbox"
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<div class="font-semibold text-slate-light text-base uppercase tracking-wide mb-2">Flexbox</div>

# Align Items

<div class="subnav">
    <a class="subnav-link" href="#usage">Usage</a>
    <a class="subnav-link" href="#responsive">Responsive</a>
    <a class="subnav-link" href="#customizing">Customizing</a>
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Tailwind provides a comprehensive set of Flexbox utilities out of the box to make it easy for you to implement complex layouts without having to write any new CSS.

<h2>Stretch <span class="ml-2 font-semibold text-slate-light text-sm uppercase tracking-wide">Default</span></h2>

Use `.items-stretch` to stretch items to fill the flex container's cross axis:

@component('_partials.code-sample')
<div class="flex items-stretch bg-smoke-light h-24">
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
@endcomponent

## Start

Use `.items-start` to align items to the start of the flex container's cross axis:

@component('_partials.code-sample')
<div class="flex items-start bg-smoke-light h-24">
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
@endcomponent

## Center

Use `.items-center` to align items along the center of the flex container's cross axis:

@component('_partials.code-sample')
<div class="flex items-center bg-smoke-light h-24">
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
@endcomponent

## End

Use `.items-end` to align items to the end of the flex container's cross axis:

@component('_partials.code-sample')
<div class="flex items-end bg-smoke-light h-24">
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
@endcomponent


## Baseline

Use `.items-baseline` to align items along the flex container's cross axis such that all of their baselines align:

@component('_partials.code-sample')
<div class="flex items-baseline bg-smoke-light h-24">
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2 text-base">1</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2 text-2xl">2</div>
    <div class="flex-1 text-slate text-center bg-smoke px-4 py-2 m-2 text-lg">3</div>
</div>
@endcomponent