# postcss-place

> Use a place-* shorthand for align-* and justify-* in CSS

Latest version **11.0.0** (published 2026-01-14) · MIT-0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install postcss-place
pnpm add postcss-place
yarn add postcss-place
bun add postcss-place
```

## Health

**Score 55/100 (C)** — status: stable.

Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities; high maintenance score.

Warnings: low downloads; no types.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 11.0.0 |
| Published | 2026-01-14 |
| First published | 2016-11-26 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT-0 |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM |
| Node | >=20.19.0 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 5.5 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 1052 |
| Maintainers | jonathantneal, alaguna, romainmenke |
| Keywords | alignments, aligns, contents, css, justifies, justify, postcss, postcss-plugin, selfs, shorthands |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-place
- Repository: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins
- Homepage: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/tree/main/plugins/postcss-place#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/issues
- Funding: https://github.com/sponsors/csstools
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/postcss-place

## Dependencies (1)

- [postcss-value-parser](https://npm.io/package/postcss-value-parser.md) ^4.2.0

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## Recent versions

- 11.0.0 (latest) — 2026-01-14
- 10.0.0 — 2024-08-03
- 9.0.1 — 2023-12-15
- 9.0.0 — 2023-07-03
- 8.0.1 — 2023-01-28
- 8.0.0 — 2023-01-24
- 7.0.5 — 2022-07-08
- 7.0.4 — 2022-02-05
- 7.0.3 — 2022-01-02
- 7.0.2 — 2021-12-13
- 7.0.1 — 2021-11-18
- 7.0.0 — 2021-09-17
- 5.0.0 — 2020-04-26
- 4.0.1 — 2018-09-18
- 4.0.0 — 2018-09-18
- … 6 more at https://npm.io/package/postcss-place/versions

## README

# PostCSS Place Properties [<img src="https://postcss.github.io/postcss/logo.svg" alt="PostCSS Logo" width="90" height="90" align="right">][PostCSS]

`npm install postcss-place --save-dev`

[PostCSS Place Properties] lets you use `place-*` properties as shorthands for `align-*`
and `justify-*`, following the [CSS Box Alignment] specification.

```css
.example {
	place-self: center;
	place-content: space-between center;
}

/* becomes */

.example {
	align-self: center;
	justify-self: center;
	place-self: center;
	align-content: space-between;
	justify-content: center;
	place-content: space-between center;
}
```

## Usage

Add [PostCSS Place Properties] to your project:

```bash
npm install postcss postcss-place --save-dev
```

Use it as a [PostCSS] plugin:

```js
const postcss = require('postcss');
const postcssPlace = require('postcss-place');

postcss([
	postcssPlace(/* pluginOptions */)
]).process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions */);
```



## Options

### preserve

The `preserve` option determines whether the original notation
is preserved. By default, it is preserved.

```js
postcssPlace({ preserve: false })
```

```css
.example {
	place-self: center;
	place-content: space-between center;
}

/* becomes */

.example {
	align-self: center;
	justify-self: center;
	align-content: space-between;
	justify-content: center;
}
```

[cli-url]: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/actions/workflows/test.yml?query=workflow/test
[css-url]: https://cssdb.org/#place-properties
[discord]: https://discord.gg/bUadyRwkJS
[npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-place

[PostCSS]: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
[PostCSS Place Properties]: https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/tree/main/plugins/postcss-place
[CSS Box Alignment]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-align-3/#place-content

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