Title: button alignment stopped working
Last modified: March 17, 2023

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# button alignment stopped working

 *  [jimh12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimh12345/)
 * (@jimh12345)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/)
 * I have a lot of “Buy Print” buttons on my photography web site. At some point,
   last year I think, the alignment of those buttons was lost. I can still choose
   left/center/right in the block editor, and that works _in the editor_, but in
   the actual page it’s always aligned left. 
   In the example page I posted, the 
   alignment is set to ‘right’ but the button appears at left. I find lots of references
   to this problem going back a couple of years, but no definitive solution. Is 
   button alignment just broken?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by [jimh12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimh12345/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbutton-alignment-stopped-working%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/#post-16568684)
 * > I find lots of references to this problem going back a couple of years, but
   > no definitive solution. Is button alignment just broken?
 * 1) Common symptom, but a million different causes. So there’s not one “definite
   solution” — what worked for someone may not work for you (because of different
   root causes).
 * 2) The design/presentation/appearance of your site is, by and large, the job 
   of your active theme. WordPress may indeed introduce a feature that may cause
   something in your theme (or plugin) to break, but it’s still the theme’s job 
   to address the problem.
 * 3) To get your alignment working, go to APPEARANCE => CUSTOMIZE => ADDITIONAL
   CSS, add the following, and hit PUBLISH:
 *     ```
       .is-layout-flex {
           display: flex;
       }
       ```
   
 * (If you have something else in there, put this at the very end.)
 * Standing by for feedback.
 *  Thread Starter [jimh12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimh12345/)
 * (@jimh12345)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/#post-16570233)
 * Well that actually seems to work in my case, and it doesn’t appear to have broken
   anything else. So I rank this in the top 2% of WP fixes.
   Of course I’d rather
   have found the root cause, and not just thrown more CSS into the hopper (what’s“
   flex” anyway?), but that’s probably beyond my understanding at present. Thanks
   George!
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/#post-16570316)
 * “Flex” is a CSS layout model. If your theme has element class attribute “is-layout-
   flex” and does not declare it `display: flex;`, it’s apparently some kind of 
   oversight, because declaring flex alone doesn’t accomplish much without other
   supporting declarations, which are apparently already in place. So that’s the
   root cause you and George just fixed, a theme oversight.
 *  Thread Starter [jimh12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimh12345/)
 * (@jimh12345)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/#post-16570362)
 * Yes, “display:flex” seemed scarily generic. The theme is old, and the buttons
   used to align properly, but who knows. As a former software developer I really
   dislike the layered aspect of WP – everything’s declarative, not procedural, 
   fingers pointed in all directions, no obvious way to debug a problem. I suppose
   if I had serious knowledge of CSS I’d at least know where to look.
 * Thanks for the insights.

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 * [align](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/align/)
 * [alignment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alignment/)
 * [button](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/button/)

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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jimh12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimh12345/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-alignment-stopped-working/#post-16570362)
 * Status: not resolved

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