CSS TEXT-JUSTIFY
This property appears to offer a refinement on the “justify” value used in the ‘text-align’ property. Indeed, the “justify” value must be set for that property for ‘text-justify’ to have any effect.
‘Text-justify’ offers a fine level of justification control over the enclosed content, allowing for a variety of sophisticated justification models used in different language writing systems.
Example
div {
text-align: justify;
text-justify: newspaper
}
Possible Values
auto: The browser will determine the appropriate justification algorithm to use
distribute: Justification is handled similarly to the “newspaper” value, but this version is optimized for East Asian content (especially the Thai language.) In this justification method, the last line is not justified.
distribute-all-lines: Behavior and intent for this value is the same as with the “distribute” value, but the last line is also justified.
inter-cluster: Justifies content that does not have any inter-word spacing (such as with many East Asian languages.)
inter-ideograph: Used for justifying blocks of ideographic content. Justification is achieved by increasing or decreasing spacing between ideographic characters and words as well.
inter-word: Justification is achieved by increasing the spacing between words. It is the quickest method of justification and does not justify the last line of a content block.
newspaper: Spacing between letters and words are increased or decreased as necessary. The IE reference says “it is the most sophisticated form of justification for Latin alphabets.”
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i glanced something that said
text-justify:kashida
for arabic texts…. dont know more about it… i just oversaw it in a search result
thanks..i try yo learn about css n this blog give me good lesson, i hope this blog will improve more and more..thanks again
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thanks for the article, been trying to fix an issue for a while and couldn’t for the life of me remember the css for it.
I believe this is an invalid CSS2 property and is not fully supported
Jono, this is a CSS3 website you idiot!
Huh, cool, I never thought about how justification must be really tough to pull off for spaceless languages like Japanese.
Suggestion for the article: why not add some actual example textboxes using the various types of justify?
I’ve just tried to implement this, but it doesn’t who up in Firefox 3.5.7. Are these properties understood by most browsers?
I’ve just tried to implement this, but it doesn’t show up in Firefox 3.5.7. Are these properties understood by most browsers?
matthew, are you using just this to justify your text? Because this, as it says, is just meant as a refinement. If so, then you should put ‘text-align: justify;’ first, and then implement this to touch that up. :3 Hope this helps, since I’m also using Firefox and I’m in the clear.
Great post; it cleared up the different property values perfectly for me. Keep up the good work!
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i have problem with asian text in css
if use asian text, My page will be scroll horizontally ,
thanks for this great tut site…
:-)
Thanks for this blog. It has helped me to work out an issue getting text inside a form to be justified.
Hi,
I am building my website with only css and divs (which is a huge accomplishment to me, as I am an old school html table’r) and this was really helpful to me.
Thank you very much!
I was having a lot of trouble with this. I’m still not familiar with which tags I can use justify with I guess. This helped me get it working on my site though, thanks!
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Didn’t seem to work for me.. The text never got justified. It just floated on the left of the div.
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I made a quick demo of this at jsFiddle (http://jsfiddle.net/RafalChmiel/aQmsU/embedded/result/). Looks similar until you look closer.
What about “none” value? If I want default value what I must write in: “auto” or “none”?
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Omg. This totally solved my problem. I was looking for the justify property. Thanks a lot. !
O you could just insert this into whichever class your text is in you want to justify
text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-word;
anyone know how to text justify on one line only?
or multiple lines where the text is not long enough to reach the end of the line?
i want to justify the text on 3 lines that i am using in my site’s header..
so far i have assigned a width the containing div and used various justify css codes.. but no justification has occured..
Why dont you just make a span for that one line and justify it, color it or do whatever you need with it??
Because we’re not all working with static content
Use this css:
p:first-line {
text-align:justify;
}
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