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

Reference

Properties

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

The specification also defines thehyphenate-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, andwrap-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.

Handling whitespace

A guide introducing the various CSS properties that control the rendering of whitespace in the DOM, exploring the pitfalls and their mitigations.

Related concepts

Properties

• direction
• font-feature-settings
• initial-letter
• orphans
• text-combine-upright
• text-orientation
• text-overflow
• text-size-adjustExperimental
• 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