How do you right-justify text in an HTML textbox?

Solution 1:

Did you try setting the style:

input {
    text-align:right;
}

Just tested, this works fine (in FF3 at least):

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Blah</title>
        <style type="text/css">
        input { text-align:right; }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text" value="2">
    </body>
</html>

You'll probably want to throw a class on these inputs, and use that class as the selector. I would shy away from "rightAligned" or something like that. In a class name, you want to describe what the element's function is, not how it should be rendered. "numeric" might be good, or perhaps the business function of the text boxes.

Solution 2:

Using inline styles:

<input type="text" style="text-align: right"/>

or, put it in a style sheet, like so:

<style>
   .rightJustified {
        text-align: right;
    }
</style>

and reference the class:

<input type="text" class="rightJustified"/>

Solution 3:

Apply style="text-align: right" to the input tag. This will allow entry to be right-justified, and (at least in Firefox 3, IE 7 and Safari) will even appear to flow from the right.

How do you right-justify text in an HTML textbox?

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