AnkiDroid - How to Left Align Text?

Question

On AnkiDroid, all text in the flash cards is center aligned. Is there a way to make it left aligned? I'm looking for a solution that does not involve editing each card. For example, is there a setting to make the text left aligned?

Update on the closed question, a workaround: You can always put spaces to the ends of the lines to make them equally long. This will manually left align the text. Example:
List of fruits: 1 Nut______ 2 Pineapple 3 Orange___ — geffchang, May 13 '13 at 11:28
@MatthewRead I Agree, great question! Anki including AnkiDroid needs more attention, it is by far the best thing since sliced bread! And thanks to google i found this answer that helped me! — Michal Ciechan, Mar 12 '18 at 21:33
@MichalCiechan Appreciate your comment, even years later -- SE has since done away with the "Too Localized" on-hold reason, and if users of the app find this info useful then it should definitely be here. I've cleaned up the older comments. — Matthew Read, Mar 13 '18 at 17:23
You just have to change the style from text-align: center; in text-align: left; — STEE-V SEVEN, Nov 29 '18 at 20:23

Nicolas Raoul · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-11T03:17:13.580

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Yes, you can align text to the left.

For now there is no WYSIWYG editor, but you can do what you want with some simple HTML:

AnkiDroid left align

If you don't want to do it for each card, modify the card template using Anki Desktop.

edited Nov 11 '14 at 03:17

answered Apr 30 '12 at 06:50

Nicolas Raoul

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That's why I don't use AnkiDroid – Deqing Nov 11 '14 at 01:30
@Deqing: You will be glad to know that https://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=635 has been fixed and there is now a way to align left :-) I updated my answer. – Nicolas Raoul Nov 11 '14 at 03:18
Tried adding
in both AnkiDroid 2.3.2 and Anki desktop, still not working :(
– Deqing Nov 11 '14 at 03:50
@Deqing: Please post a new question, including screenshots of your card template and of the content of all fields, thanks! – Nicolas Raoul Nov 11 '14 at 04:00
New question posted http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/87333/ankidroid-failed-to-left-align-text. Thanks. – Deqing Nov 11 '14 at 06:30

AnkiDroid - How to Left Align Text?

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