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# yAxis.title.textAlign

Alignment of the text, can be `"left"`, `"right"` or `"center"`. Default alignment depends on the title.align:

Horizontal axes:

- for `align` = `"low"`, `textAlign` is set to `left`
- for `align` = `"middle"`, `textAlign` is set to `center`
- for `align` = `"high"`, `textAlign` is set to `right`

Vertical axes:

- for `align` = `"low"` and `opposite` = `true`, `textAlign` is set to `right`
- for `align` = `"low"` and `opposite` = `false`, `textAlign` is set to `left`
- for `align` = `"middle"`, `textAlign` is set to `center`
- for `align` = `"high"` and `opposite` = `true` `textAlign` is set to `left`
- for `align` = `"high"` and `opposite` = `false` `textAlign` is set to `right`