---
title: kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left
framework: coremedia
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: coremedia/kcmtextmarkupalignmenttype_left
---

# kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left

An alignment type that visually aligns text from left-to-right.

## Declaration

```swift
let kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left: CFString
```

## Discussion

Discussion For horizontally written text, the text alignment is always visually left-aligned (the system uniformly treats left-to-right and right-to-left). For vertical text, kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left is equivalent to kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Start.

## See Also

### Alignment Types

- [kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Start](coremedia/kcmtextmarkupalignmenttype_start.md)
- [kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Middle](coremedia/kcmtextmarkupalignmenttype_middle.md)
- [kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_End](coremedia/kcmtextmarkupalignmenttype_end.md)
- [kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Right](coremedia/kcmtextmarkupalignmenttype_right.md)