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Unprefix CSS 'line-break' property

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 58)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The CSS 'line-break' property specifies the strictness of line-breaking rules. The exact definition of the strictness depends on languages. Our implementation relies on ICU (see doc link) which supports East Asian writing systems and Finnish.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#line-break-property
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/735539

Docs: http://cldr.unicode.org/development/development-process/design-proposals/specifying-text-break-variants-in-locale-ids

Samples: https://ja.stackoverflow.com/questions/33378/chrome%E3%81%A7%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E7%A6%81%E5%89%87%E5%87%A6%E7%90%86%E3%81%8C%E5%8A%B9%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84

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