---
title: horizontalAlignmentMode
framework: spritekit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: spritekit/sklabelnode/horizontalalignmentmode
---

# horizontalAlignmentMode

The horizontal position of the text within the node.

## Declaration

```swift
var horizontalAlignmentMode: SKLabelHorizontalAlignmentMode { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Adding Text to a Scene

## Discussion

Discussion The possible values for this property are listed in SKLabelHorizontalAlignmentMode. The default value of this property is SKLabelHorizontalAlignmentMode.center.

## See Also

### Controlling a Label’s Alignment

- [verticalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelnode/verticalalignmentmode.md)
- [SKLabelVerticalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelverticalalignmentmode.md)
- [SKLabelHorizontalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelhorizontalalignmentmode.md)