index.md

title	CSS text
slug	Web/CSS/CSS_text
page-type	css-module
spec-urls	https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text/ https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/
sidebar	cssref

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-autospace")}}
• {{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

{{Specifications}}

See also

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