# PostCSS Place Properties [<img src="https://postcss.github.io/postcss/logo.svg" alt="PostCSS Logo" width="90" height="90" align="right">][postcss]

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[PostCSS Place Properties] lets you use `place-*` properties as shorthands for `align-*`
and `justify-*`, following the [CSS Box Alignment] specification.

```pcss
.example {
  place-self: center;
  place-content: space-between center;
}

/* becomes */

.example {
  align-self: center;
  justify-self: center;
  place-self: center;
  align-content: space-between;
  justify-content: center;
  place-content: space-between center;
}
```

## Usage

Add [PostCSS Place Properties] to your project:

```bash
npm install postcss-place --save-dev
```

Use [PostCSS Place Properties] to process your CSS:

```js
import postcssPlace from 'postcss-place';

postcssPlace.process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions, pluginOptions */);
```

Or use it as a [PostCSS] plugin:

```js
import postcss from 'postcss';
import postcssPlace from 'postcss-place';

postcss([
  postcssPlace(/* pluginOptions */)
]).process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions */);
```

[PostCSS Place Properties] runs in all Node environments, with special instructions for:

| [Node](INSTALL.md#node) | [Webpack](INSTALL.md#webpack) | [Create React App](INSTALL.md#create-react-app) | [Gulp](INSTALL.md#gulp) | [Grunt](INSTALL.md#grunt) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

## Options

### preserve

The `preserve` option determines whether the original place declaration is
preserved. By default, it is preserved.

```js
postcssPlace({ preserve: false })
```

```pcss
.example {
  place-self: center;
  place-content: space-between center;
}

/* becomes */

.example {
  align-self: center;
  justify-self: center;
  align-content: space-between;
  justify-content: center;
}
```

[cli-img]: https://img.shields.io/travis/jonathantneal/postcss-place.svg
[cli-url]: https://travis-ci.org/jonathantneal/postcss-place
[css-img]: https://cssdb.org/badge/place-properties.svg
[css-url]: https://cssdb.org/#place-properties
[git-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/support-chat-blue.svg
[git-url]: https://gitter.im/postcss/postcss
[npm-img]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/postcss-place.svg
[npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-place

[CSS Box Alignment]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-align-3/#place-content
[Gulp PostCSS]: https://github.com/postcss/gulp-postcss
[Grunt PostCSS]: https://github.com/nDmitry/grunt-postcss
[PostCSS]: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
[PostCSS Loader]: https://github.com/postcss/postcss-loader
[PostCSS Place Properties]: https://github.com/jonathantneal/postcss-place