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CSS hyphens property

Category
CSS
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 55)
Intent stage
None

Summary

This CSS property controls automatic hyphenations. The automatic hyphenation is strongly demanded as seen in crbug.com/47083, and is already supported by all other major browsers. Blink enables the following values on all platforms: "manual" - the initial value. "none" - disables soft hyphens. and the following value on Android and Mac: "auto" - enables the automatic hyphenation for languages where the underlying operating system has dictionaries.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZgMnNxYxvPJYMOeyxJs8MsfGMNFiDKrz64AySxlCzpk/edit?usp=sharing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/css-hyphens/

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