CSS text

Reference

Properties

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

The specification also defines the hyphenate-limit-last, hyphenate-limit-lines, hyphenate-limit-zone, line-padding, text-align-all, 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

• direction
• font-feature-settings
• initial-letter
• orphans
• text-combine-upright
• text-orientation
• text-overflow
• text-size-adjust Experimental
• unicode-bidi
• widows
• writing-mode

Values

• min-content
• max-content

HTML

• <pre>
• <wbr>

Specifications

See also

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