---
title: alignment
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsparagraphstyle/alignment
---

# alignment

The text alignment of the paragraph.

## Declaration

```swift
var alignment: NSTextAlignment { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The framework displays natural text alignment as left or right alignment depending on the line sweep direction of the first script contained in the paragraph.

## See Also

### Accessing style information

- [NSTextAlignment](appkit/nstextalignment.md)
- [firstLineHeadIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/firstlineheadindent.md)
- [headIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/headindent.md)
- [tailIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/tailindent.md)
- [lineHeightMultiple](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/lineheightmultiple.md)
- [maximumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/maximumlineheight.md)
- [minimumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/minimumlineheight.md)
- [lineSpacing](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/linespacing.md)
- [paragraphSpacing](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacing.md)
- [paragraphSpacingBefore](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacingbefore.md)