Place a button right aligned

Question

I use this code to right align a button.

<p align="right">
  <input type="button" value="Click Me" />
</p>

But <p> tags wastes some space, so looking to do the same with <span> or <div>.

Answer 1

Which alignment technique you use depends on your circumstances but the basic one is float: right;:

<input type="button" value="Click Me" style="float: right;">

You'll probably want to clear your floats though but that can be done with overflow:hidden on the parent container or an explicit <div style="clear: both;"></div> at the bottom of the container.

For example: http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/8UvVg/

Floated elements are removed from the normal document flow so they can overflow their parent's boundary and mess up the parent's height, the clear:both CSS takes care of that (as does overflow:hidden). Play around with the JSFiddle example I added to see how floating and clearing behave (you'll want to drop the overflow:hidden first though).

Answer 2

If the button is the only element on the block:

.border {
  border: 2px blue dashed;
}

.mr-0 {
  margin-right: 0;
}
.ml-auto {
  margin-left:auto;
}
.d-block {
  display:block;
}

<p class="border">
  <input type="button" class="d-block mr-0 ml-auto" value="The Button">
</p>

If there are other elements on the block:

.border {
  border: 2px indigo dashed;
}

.d-table {
  display:table;
}

.d-table-cell {
  display:table-cell;
}

.w-100 {
  width: 100%;
}

.tar {
  text-align: right;
}

<div class="border d-table w-100">
  <p class="d-table-cell">The paragraph.....lorem ipsum...etc.</p>
  <div class="d-table-cell tar">
    <button >The Button</button>
  </div>
</div>

With flex-box:

.flex-box {
  display:flex;
  justify-content:space-between;
  outline: 2px dashed blue;
}

.flex-box-2 {
  display:flex;
  justify-content: flex-end;
  outline: 2px deeppink dashed;
}

<h1>Button with Text</h1>
<div class="flex-box">
<p>Once upon a time in a ...</p>
<button>Read More...</button>
</div>

<h1>Only Button</h1>
<div class="flex-box-2">
  <button>The Button</button>
</div>

<h1>Multiple Buttons</h1>
<div class="flex-box-2">
  <button>Button 1</button>
  <button>Button 2</button>
</div>

Good Luck...

Answer 3

Another possibility is to use an absolute positioning oriented to the right:

<input type="button" value="Click Me" style="position: absolute; right: 0;">

Here's an example: https://jsfiddle.net/a2Ld1xse/

This solution has its downsides, but there are use cases where it's very useful.

Answer 4

<div style = "display: flex; justify-content:flex-end">
    <button>Click me!</button>
</div>

<div style = "display: flex; justify-content: flex-end">
    <button>Click me!</button>
</div>

Answer 5

a modern approach in 2019 using flex-box

with div tag

<div style="display:flex; justify-content:flex-end; width:100%; padding:0;">
    <input type="button" value="Click Me"/>
</div>

with span tag

<span style="display:flex; justify-content:flex-end; width:100%; padding:0;">
    <input type="button" value="Click Me"/>
</span>

Answer 6

This solution depends on Bootstrap 3, as pointed out by @günther-jena

Try <a class="btn text-right">Call to Action</a>. This way you don't need extra markup or rules to clear out floated elements.

Answer 7

To keep the button in the page flow:

<input type="button" value="Click Me" style="margin-left: auto; display: block;" />

(put that style in a .css file, do not use this html inline, for better maintenance)

Answer 8

It is not always so simple and sometimes the alignment must be defined in the container and not in the Button element itself !

For your case, the solution would be

<div style="text-align:right; width:100%; padding:0;">
    <input type="button" value="Click Me"/>
</div>

I have taken care to specify width=100% to be sure that <div> take full width of his container.

I have also added padding:0 to avoid before and after space as with <p> element.

I can say that if <div> is defined in a FSF/Primefaces table's footer, the float:right don't work correctly because the Button height will become higher than the footer height !

In this Primefaces situation, the only acceptable solution is to use text-align:right in container.

With this solution, if you have 6 Buttons to align at right, you must only specify this alignment in container :-)

<div style="text-align:right; width:100%; padding:0;">
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 1"/>
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 2"/>
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 3"/>
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 4"/>
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 5"/>
    <input type="button" value="Click Me 6"/>
</div>

Answer 9

Another possibility is to use an absolute positioning oriented to the right. You can do it this way:

style="position: absolute; right: 0;"

Answer 10

In my case the

<p align="right"/>

worked fine

Answer 11

with float-right bootstrap class :

 <button class="float-right">RIGHT</button>