CSS Property: text-justify
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The CSS (CSS3) text-justify property indicates how
text is justified when the text-align
property has been set to justify.
Valid property values
(other than inherit
and initial) are:
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Value
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Description
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auto
|
(default value).
Browser determines justification
|
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distribute
|
Primarily changes
spacing at word separators and at grapheme boundaries in scripts other than
connected and cursive scripts
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inter-cluster
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Primarily changes
spacing at word separators and at grapheme boundaries in cursive scripts
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inter-ideograph
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Primarily changes
spacing at word separators and at grapheme boundaries in connected scripts
(i.e. ones that use no word spaces)
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inter-word
|
Primarily changes
spacing at word separators
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kashida
|
Primarily stretches
Arabic and related scripts through use of kashida or other calligraphic
elongation
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Default Value:
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auto
|
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JavaScript syntax:
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e.g. object.style.textJustify="distribute"
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Inherited:
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Yes
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Animatable:
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No
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EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head>
<style>
div {width: 100px; border: 2px solid red; text-align: justify}
.x1 {text-justify: distribute}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Not: not all browsers support this style<br><br>
1. Element with default property<br>
<div>abcde fgh a bcd</div><br>
2. Element set using in-file HTML style<br>
<div class="x1">abcde fgh a bcd</div><br>
3. Element set using JavaScript<br>
<div id="x2">abcde fgh a bcd</div>
<script>
document.getElementById("x2").style.textJustify = "distribute";
</script>
</body>
</html>
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FUNCTION THAT MAY ASSIST IN TESTING WHETHER FEATURE IS SUPPORTED:
function isSupportedCSSPropertyTextJustify() {
var x = document.createElement("DIV"); x.style.textJustify = "distribute"; return (window.getComputedStyle(x, null).textJustify == "distribute");
} |
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