CSS Text

CSS Text is a module of CSS that defines how to perform text manipulation, like line breaking, justification and alignment, white space handling, and text transformation.

Reference

Properties

• hyphens
• letter-spacing
• line-break
• overflow-wrap
• tab-size
• text-align
• text-align-last
• text-indent
• text-size-adjust
• text-transform
• white-space
• word-break
• word-spacing
• word-wrap

Guides

None.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Logical Properties Level 1	Editor's Draft	Updates some properties to be independent of the directionality of the text.
CSS Text Level 3	Working Draft
CSS Level 2 (Revision 1)	Recommendation
CSS Level 1	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari (WebKit)
Basic support	1.0	1.0 (1.7 or earlier)	3	3.5	1.0 (85)

Feature	Android	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Phone	Opera Mobile	Safari Mobile
Basic support	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)	1.0 (85)

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