CSS GUIDE TEXT-JUSTIFY

This document is a work in progress and is subject to change.

Summary

The text-justify property selects the justification algorithm used when text-align property is set to justify.

Applicability:	The text-justify property affects block-level and inline-block elements
Media Group:	Visual
Inherited:	Yes

TARGET_ELEMENT{ text-justify: auto|inter-word|inter-ideograph|distribute|newspaper|inter-cluster|kashida }

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 text-kashida-space property. If text-kashida-space is set to the initial value, there will be no kashida effect. This is the Arabic counterpart to 'inter-ideograph'.

/* 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; }

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