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== Summary ==

The text-justify property selects the justification algorithm used when [[CSS_GUIDE_TEXT-ALIGN|text-align]] property is set to justify.

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<td><b>Applicability:</b></td><td>The text-justify property affects block-level and inline-block elements<td>
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<td><b>[http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/media.html#visual-media-groups Media Group:]</b>
</td><td>Visual</td>
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<td><b>Inherited:</b></td><td>Yes</td>
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== Syntax ==
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TARGET_ELEMENT{ text-justify: auto|inter-word|inter-ideograph|distribute|newspaper|inter-cluster|kashida }
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== Legal Values ==

The legal values of the visiblity property are:
* '''auto''' - The UA determines the justification algorithm to follow.
* '''inter-word''' - Spreads the text evenly across the line by increasing the width of the space between words only. This is the simplest and fastest full justification behavior.
* '''newspaper''' - Both inter-word and inter-letter spacing can be expanded or reduced to spread the text across the whole line
* '''inter-ideograph''' - letter-spacing modification only occurs for the CJK group
* '''distribute''' - It allows letter spacing modification for most script groups (except the Devanagari group), but unlike newspaper, it does not prioritize between word spacing and letter spacing.
* '''inter-cluster''' - Letter spacing only occurs between script-defined grapheme clusters occurring in Southeast Asian scripts. This is the Southeast Asian counterpart to 'inter-ideograph'. 
* '''kashida''' - Letter spacing may be increased between Arabic letters with the extra space being filled by kashida. The amount of kashida is controlled by the [[CSS_GUIDE_TEXT_KASHIDA_SPACE|text-kashida-space]] property. If [[CSS_GUIDE_TEXT_KASHIDA_SPACE|text-kashida-space]] is set to the initial value, there will be no kashida effect. This is the Arabic counterpart to 'inter-ideograph'. 

== Mozilla Recommended Values ==

== Usage Examples==

 /* Set the text-justify property to inter-word */
 div { text-justify: inter-word; }

 /* Set the text-justify property to inter-word */
 div { text-justify: newspaper; }

 /* Set the text-justify property to inter-word */
 div { text-justify: inter-ideograph; }

 /* Set the text-justify property to inter-word */
 div { text-justify: kashida; }

 /* Set the text-justify property to inter-word */
 div { text-justify: newspaper; }


== Notes ==

Here is a list of writing systems:
* CJK and Hangul and by extension all 'wide' characters
* Devanagari and all South Asian scripts using baseline connector (such as Bengali and Gurmukhi)
* South Eastern Asian scripts that do not use space between words (such as Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar)
* Cursive scripts like Arabic
* Scripts using space between word without connector (such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc...) and symbol characters


== Specification Conformance  ==
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#justification-prop CSS 3]

== Browser Compatibility ==

== See Also ==
* [[CSS_GUIDE_TEXT-ALIGN|text-align]]
* [[CSS_GUIDE_TEXT_KASHIDA_SPACE|text-kashida-space property]]