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title: verticalAlignment
framework: usd
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path: usd/verticalalignment
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# verticalAlignment

An option that controls the text’s vertical placement within its bounding rectangle.

## Overview

Overview The runtime handles each option of this property differently depending on whether the text displays with line breaks. For more information, see wrapMode. Declaration token verticalAlignment = "center" (     allowedTokens = ["top", "middle", "lowerMiddle", "baseline", "bottom"] ) Vertical Alignments for Single-Line Text For a single line of text, the vertical alignment is relative to font features. Vertical Alignments for Multiline Text For multiline text, each line of text bases its vertical alignment on the text’s bounding box.

## See Also

### Properties

- [content](usd/content.md)
- [font](usd/font.md)
- [pointSize](usd/pointsize.md)
- [width](usd/width.md)
- [height](usd/height.md)
- [depth](usd/depth.md)
- [wrapMode](usd/wrapmode.md)
- [horizontalAlignment](usd/horizontalalignment.md)