Answers.Body: <p>I don't think text-align left and Justify text have anything to do with one another. Justification is usually controlled by the reading system, while text-align left is the default behavior for text. The css property text-align mainly has to do with alignment inside of a box (usually a single line). You could use another css property to scoot the text to the left or the right (margin, etc). </p>
  
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Answers.Text: `text-align` does indeed distinguish `left` and `justify` ([MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align)). It is more likely a default setting is overriding this directive. More specificity ([MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity)) may override the default setting, would need to test.
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Body: <p>Using Calibre I have tried to use ´text-align: left´ in CSS but viewing the resulting epub-file with iBooks the result is still justified text. How can I change to left alignment?<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/VB7OV.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/VB7OV.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do you have "Justify text" turned on in iBooks -> Preferences -> General? That will override the CSS settings.
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Title: Problem with left alignment in Calibre/iBooks
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ThreadText: # Problem with left alignment in Calibre/iBooks
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-28)
  
  Using Calibre I have tried to use ´text-align: left´ in CSS but viewing the resulting epub-file with iBooks the result is still justified text. How can I change to left alignment?[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/VB7OV.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/VB7OV.png)
  
  **Tags:** epub, calibre, css, apple-books, mac-os
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do you have "Justify text" turned on in iBooks -> Preferences -> General? That will override the CSS settings.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-10-30. Score: 2
  
  I don't think text-align left and Justify text have anything to do with one another. Justification is usually controlled by the reading system, while text-align left is the default behavior for text. The css property text-align mainly has to do with alignment inside of a box (usually a single line). You could use another css property to scoot the text to the left or the right (margin, etc).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: `text-align` does indeed distinguish `left` and `justify` ([MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align)). It is more likely a default setting is overriding this directive. More specificity ([MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity)) may override the default setting, would need to test.  
  
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