diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a85c30..d61b6dc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ const fileAsUint8Array = await createXlsx({
 })
 ```
 
+Styles accept an `alignment` object, for example
+`{ alignment: { vertical: "center", wrapText: true } }`.
+Alignment is preserved when a cell also uses a date or datetime format.
+
 ## Contributing
 
 Follow [Coding Style Guide](https://github.com/litejs/litejs/wiki/Style-Guide),
diff --git a/test/index.js b/test/index.js
index 8ab460f..547dd28 100644
--- a/test/index.js
+++ b/test/index.js
@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ describe("xlsx", function() {
 	var { createFiles, createXlsx } = require("..")
 	, compressionSuported = typeof CompressionStream !== "undefined" && typeof Response !== "undefined"
 
+	test("cell alignment and formatted styles", function(assert) {
+		var files = createFiles({
+			styles: {
+				Wrapped: { font: { b: true }, alignment: { vertical: 'center', wrapText: true } },
+				Unwrapped: { alignment: { horizontal: 'right', wrapText: false } }
+			},
+			sheets: [[[
+				{ style: 'Wrapped', value: 'line one\nline two' },
+				{ style: 'Wrapped', format: 'date', value: new Date(1514900750001) },
+				{ style: 'Unwrapped', value: 10 }
+			]]]
+		})
+		, styles = files.find(f => f.name === 'xl/styles.xml').content
+		assert.equal((styles.match(/<alignment vertical="center" wrapText="true"\/>/g) || []).length, 2, 'alignment survives format merging')
+		assert.ok(styles.includes('applyAlignment="1"'), 'alignment enabled on cell style')
+		assert.ok(styles.includes('<alignment horizontal="right" wrapText="false"/>'), 'false remains explicit')
+		assert.ok(!styles.includes('alignment="'), 'alignment is a child, never an attribute')
+		assert.end()
+	})
+
 	function sheet1(data, sheet) {
 		return createFiles({ sheets: [{ data, ...sheet }] }).find(f => f.name === 'xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml').content
 	}
diff --git a/test/types.ts b/test/types.ts
index 613a4cf..e8767e4 100644
--- a/test/types.ts
+++ b/test/types.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { createFiles, createXlsx, Workbook, XlsxFile } from ".."
 
 var workbook: Workbook = {
 	styles: {
-		bold: { font: { sz: 11, name: "Calibri", b: true } },
+		bold: { font: { sz: 11, name: "Calibri", b: true }, alignment: { vertical: "center", wrapText: true } },
 		border: { border: "thin" },
 		fill: { fill: "FFFF00" },
 	},
diff --git a/types/index.d.ts b/types/index.d.ts
index 51d7069..614d031 100644
--- a/types/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/index.d.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,18 @@ export interface FillDef {
 	pattern?: string
 }
 
+export interface AlignmentDef {
+	horizontal?: "general" | "left" | "center" | "right" | "fill" | "justify" | "centerContinuous" | "distributed"
+	vertical?: "top" | "center" | "bottom" | "justify" | "distributed"
+	wrapText?: boolean
+	shrinkToFit?: boolean
+	textRotation?: number
+	indent?: number
+	readingOrder?: number
+}
+
 export interface StyleDef {
+	alignment?: AlignmentDef
 	font?: FontDef
 	border?: string | BorderSides
 	fill?: string | FillDef
diff --git a/xlsx.js b/xlsx.js
index 05ddbe2..46bdef9 100644
--- a/xlsx.js
+++ b/xlsx.js
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@
 				bgColor: normalizeRgb(newFill.bgColor)
 			}
 			a[1] = xf.push({
+				alignment: a[1].alignment,
+				applyAlignment: a[1].alignment ? 1 : UNDEF,
 				fontId: newFont ? font.push(newFont) - 1 : 0,
 				applyFont: newFont ? 1 : UNDEF,
 				borderId: newBorder ? border.push(newBorder) - 1 : UNDEF,
@@ -190,7 +192,11 @@
 					(k, v) => toXml(k, { style: v && v.style || v }, v && v.color ? { color: [toColor(v.color)] } : 0)
 				) +
 				'<cellStyleXfs count="1"><xf numFmtId="0" fontId="0" fillId="0" borderId="0"/></cellStyleXfs>' +
-				toXml('cellXfs', { count: xf.length }, { xf }) +
+				toXml('cellXfs', { count: xf.length }, xf.map(
+					f => toXml('xf', assign({}, f, { alignment: UNDEF }), {
+						alignment: f.alignment ? [f.alignment] : UNDEF
+					})
+				).join('')) +
 				'<cellStyles count="1"><cellStyle name="Normal" xfId="0" builtinId="0"/></cellStyles>' +
 				'</styleSheet>'
 			},