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import Playground from '@site/src/components/Playground';

# Justify Content

Justify content describes how to align children within the main axis of their container.
For example, you can use this property to center a child horizontally within a container
with `flex direction` set to `row` or vertically within a container with `flex direction`
set to `column`.

**Flex start (default)**: Align children of a container to the start of the container's main axis.

**Flex end**: Align children of a container to the end of the container's main axis.

**Center**: Align children of a container in the center of the container's main axis.

**Space between**: Evenly space of children across the container's main axis, distributing
remaining space between the children.

**Space around**: Evenly space of children across the container's main axis, distributing
remaining space around the children. Compared to `space between` using
`space around` will result in space being distributed to the beginning of
the first child and end of the last child.

**Space evenly**: Evenly distributed within the alignment container along the main axis.
The spacing between each pair of adjacent items, the main-start edge and the first item,
and the main-end edge and the last item, are all exactly the same.

<Playground code={`<Layout config={{useWebDefaults: false}}>
  <Node
    style={{
      width: 200,
      height: 200,
      padding: 10,
      justifyContent: 'flex-start'
    }}>
    <Node style={{margin: 5, height: 50, width: 50}} />
    <Node style={{margin: 5, height: 50, width: 50}} />
  </Node>
</Layout>`} />