`text-justify` CSS property

Category: CSS
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Proposed (Chrome Proposed)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Published standard
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text/text-justify

Summary

Support of `text-justify` CSS property Web authors can control how text is justified when `text-align: justify` is applied by using the `text-justify` property. For example, they can force justification by expanding inter-character space even in English text.

Motivation

See the summary field.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#text-justify-property
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal — No responses.
Web developers: Positive — The issue has 24 votes.
Tracking bug: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40321528

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=css%2Fcss-text%2Ftext-justify
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+%60text-justify%60%20CSS%20property
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=%60text-justify%60%20CSS%20property
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=%60text-justify%60%20CSS%20property

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