diff --git a/web/canvas.ts b/web/canvas.ts
index 0854180..0d2095a 100644
--- a/web/canvas.ts
+++ b/web/canvas.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ export type CanvasComponent = {
   title?: string | null;
   /** `main`, `page` or null — how wide it is allowed to be. See the site's schema. */
   width?: string | null;
+  /** `center`, `right` or null — how the block's own content sits. See the site's schema. */
+  align?: string | null;
   /*
     One optional field per kind that the panel reads back. Not `Record<string, unknown>`: every reader
     would then need a cast, and the point of naming them is that the compiler knows `free-text` holds
diff --git a/web/sections/BlockSettings.tsx b/web/sections/BlockSettings.tsx
index 52e9f27..66378e1 100644
--- a/web/sections/BlockSettings.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/BlockSettings.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
     title?: string | null;
     title_size?: string | null;
     width?: string | null;
+    align?: string | null;
     padding?: Record<string, { x?: number; y?: number }>;
   };
   /** The padding scale, sent by the API so this file holds no copy of it. */
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
   const [draft, setDraft] = useState({
     title: block.title ?? '',
     width: block.width ?? '',
+    align: block.align ?? '',
     padding: block.padding ?? {},
   });
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
 
   // Keyed on the id, so re-reading the same block after a save does not throw away what is being typed.
   useEffect(
-    () => setDraft({ title: block.title ?? '', width: block.width ?? '', padding: block.padding ?? {} }),
+    () => setDraft({ title: block.title ?? '', width: block.width ?? '', align: block.align ?? '', padding: block.padding ?? {} }),
     [block.id],
   );
 
@@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
       // Empty is sent as an empty string, which the API reads as "take the heading off".
       await clientRef.current.patch(
         `/fofos-admin/pages/${pageId}/sections/${sectionId}/components/${block.id}`,
-        { title: draft.title, width: draft.width || null, padding: draft.padding, ...extra },
+        { title: draft.title, width: draft.width || null, align: draft.align || null, padding: draft.padding, ...extra },
       );
       flashSaved();
       onSaved();
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
   const stored = JSON.stringify({
     title: block.title ?? '',
     width: block.width ?? '',
+    align: block.align ?? '',
     padding: block.padding ?? {},
   });
   const pending = JSON.stringify(draft);
@@ -166,6 +169,33 @@ export const BlockSettings = ({
         </select>
       </div>
 
+      {/*
+        How the block's own content sits.
+
+        A property of the BLOCK, not of the words in it: it applies to a title drawn from the subject,
+        a spec table and a photograph, none of which have text you could select and centre. The rich
+        text editor still has its own alignment for a paragraph inside a free-text block, and the two
+        are different questions.
+
+        Left is the absence of a value rather than a value, so a block that has never been touched
+        inherits the page and nothing is written for it.
+      */}
+      <div className="mt-3 flex flex-col gap-1">
+        <label className="text-xs">Alignment</label>
+        <select
+          value={draft.align}
+          onChange={(event) => {
+            const value = event.currentTarget.value;
+            setDraft((was) => ({ ...was, align: value }));
+          }}
+          className="h-8 rounded-md border border-input bg-transparent px-2 text-xs"
+        >
+          <option value="">Left</option>
+          <option value="center">Centred</option>
+          <option value="right">Right</option>
+        </select>
+      </div>
+
       {/*
         The block's own spacing, at the width the toggle above is showing.