The text-justify property defines the behavior of spacing between words or characters.
The text-justify property is one of the CSS3 properties.
The text-justify property selects the justification method of text when text-align is set to “justify”.
| Initial Value | auto |
| Applies to | Inline-level and table-cell elements. |
| Inherited | Yes. |
| Animatable | No |
| Version | CSS3 |
| DOM Syntax | object.style.textJustify = “inter-character”; |
Syntax
text-justify: auto | inter-word | inter-character | none | initial | inherit;Example of the text-justify property:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
div {
text-align: justify;
text-justify: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Text-justify property example</h2>
<div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</div>
</body>
</html>Result
In the following example resize the browser to see how “justify” works:
Example of the text-justify property with the “inter-character” value:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
div {
text-align: justify;
text-justify: inter-character;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Text-justify property example</h2>
<div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</div>
</body>
</html>