---
title: verticalAlignmentMode
framework: spritekit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: spritekit/sklabelnode/verticalalignmentmode
---

# verticalAlignmentMode

The vertical position of the text within the node.

## Declaration

```swift
var verticalAlignmentMode: SKLabelVerticalAlignmentMode { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Adding Text to a Scene

## Discussion

Discussion The possible values for this property are listed in SKLabelVerticalAlignmentMode. The default value of this property is SKLabelVerticalAlignmentMode.baseline.

## See Also

### Controlling a Label’s Alignment

- [SKLabelVerticalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelverticalalignmentmode.md)
- [horizontalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelnode/horizontalalignmentmode.md)
- [SKLabelHorizontalAlignmentMode](spritekit/sklabelhorizontalalignmentmode.md)