CSS text

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The CSS text module defines how to perform text manipulation, like line breaking, justification and alignment, white space handling, and text transformation.

Reference

Properties

• {{cssxref("hanging-punctuation")}} 
• {{cssxref("hyphenate-character")}} 
• {{cssxref("hyphenate-limit-chars")}} 
• {{cssxref("hyphens")}} 
• {{cssxref("letter-spacing")}} 
• {{cssxref("line-break")}} 
• {{cssxref("overflow-wrap")}}  (and the word-wrap alias)
• {{cssxref("tab-size")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-align")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-align-last")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-indent")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-justify")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-spacing-trim")}}  {{Experimental_Inline}} 
• {{cssxref("text-transform")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-wrap")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-wrap-mode")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-wrap-style")}} 
• {{cssxref("white-space")}} 
• {{cssxref("white-space-collapse")}} 
• {{cssxref("word-break")}} 
• {{cssxref("word-spacing")}} 

The specification also defines the hyphenate-limit-last, hyphenate-limit-lines, hyphenate-limit-zone, line-padding, text-align-all, text-autospace, text-group-align, text-spacing, white-space-trim, word-space-transform, wrap-after, wrap-before, and wrap-inside properties, which are not yet supported by any browser.

Guides

• Wrapping and breaking text

  • : A guide to the various ways in which overflowing text can be managed in CSS.

Related concepts

Properties

• {{cssxref("direction")}} 
• {{cssxref("font-feature-settings")}} 
• {{cssxref("initial-letter")}} 
• {{cssxref("orphans")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-combine-upright")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-orientation")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-overflow")}} 
• {{cssxref("text-size-adjust")}}  {{Experimental_Inline}} 
• {{cssxref("unicode-bidi")}} 
• {{cssxref("widows")}} 
• {{cssxref("writing-mode")}} 

Values

• {{cssxref("min-content")}} 
• {{cssxref("max-content")}} 

HTML

• {{htmlelement("pre")}} 
• {{htmlelement("wbr")}} 

Specifications

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See also

• CSS writing modes module
• CSS overflow module
• CSS fonts module
• CSS ruby layout module