right description list LaTeX beamer

Question

How to do right align a description list using beamer?

      Name | Joel Spolsky
   Address | Some address

Using the enumitem package as suggested in Description list with right alignment of labels does not seem to work with the beamer package

Paul Gaborit · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-11T07:15:07.587

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With beamer package, the description environment can use an optional argument: a text to fix the maximum width of terms (cf. section 12.1 "Itemizations, Enumerations, and Descriptions", p.113 of beamer guide v3.26).

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=cyan!10}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{description}[Other description]
  \item[Name] Joel Spolsky
  \item[Address] Some address  
  \item[Other description] Some description
  \end{description}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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How to align items to the left

By default, items are aligned to the right. To align items to the the left :

in your preamble, define the predefined option align left for the template description item:
```
 \defbeamertemplate{description item}{align left}{\insertdescriptionitem\hfill}
```

apply this prefined option before a description list:

 \setbeamertemplate{description item}[align left]

Example:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=gray!5}
\defbeamertemplate{description item}{align left}{\insertdescriptionitem\hfill}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{block}{Default}
    \setbeamertemplate{description item}[default]
    \begin{description}[Other description]
    \item[Name] Joel Spolsky
    \item[Address] Some address  
    \item[Other description] Some description
    \end{description}
  \end{block}
  \begin{block}{Align left}
    \setbeamertemplate{description item}[align left]
    \begin{description}[Other description]
    \item[Name] Joel Spolsky
    \item[Address] Some address  
    \item[Other description] Some description
    \end{description}
  \end{block}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

edited Dec 11 '21 at 07:15

answered Jan 30 '13 at 07:45

Paul Gaborit

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(+1): Good solution. Is there any way to align items to left? – MYaseen208 Mar 04 '14 at 17:08
@MYaseen208 I edited my answer. – Paul Gaborit Mar 04 '14 at 23:19
Simply Awesome!!! I Opened the bounty and will reward you soon. Thanks – MYaseen208 Mar 05 '14 at 02:29
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Can you guide me how to use \setbeamertemplate{description item}[align left] globally? Thanks – MYaseen208 Mar 05 '14 at 04:55
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@MYaseen208 To change alignment globally, insert this line before your first frame (or in your preamble). – Paul Gaborit Mar 05 '14 at 06:56
I had to invert \descriptionitem and \hfill so it became: \defbeamertemplate{description item}{align left}{\hfill\insertdescriptionitem} – Daniel Oct 31 '20 at 14:04
@Daniel With \hfill\insertdescriptionitem, you can't align to the left... – Paul Gaborit Oct 31 '20 at 22:51
For some reason, my description environments were all shifted to the right, like with some additional margin. Thanks to this answer, I got the idea to use the optional argument [~] and everything got back to the normal left alignment of the slides as it should. – Olivier Jan 20 '23 at 16:05

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