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title: "How to full, left, right, and center justify text in Joomla 2.5"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Justifying text in..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/align-text/
date: 2012-06-13
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to full, left, right, and center justify text in Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

Justifying text in Joomla 2.5 is easy to do with the built in editor. You can align text in the following manner:

- Align left
- Align center
- Align right
- Align full

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the steps for aligning text in Joomla 2.5

**To justify text in Joomla 2.5:**

1. [Login to your Joomla 2.5 dashboard](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/) and open the article you would like to edit
2. Highlight the text you would like to change alignment for and click one of the alignment buttons (see screenshot below)[![highlight-text-then-click-align](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_highlight-text-then-click-align.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_highlight-text-then-click-align.gif) Align left Align right [![left-aligned](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_left-aligned.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_left-aligned.gif) [![right-aligned](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_right-aligned.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_right-aligned.gif) Align center Align full [![center-aligned](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_center-aligned.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_center-aligned.gif) [![aligned-full](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_aligned-full.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/edu_joomla25_justify-text_aligned-full.gif) You now know how to align / justify text in Joomla 2.5!