CSS text
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 theword-wrapalias){{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
- CSS text decoration module