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same as
distribute
though it also justifies the last line. A value of
inter-cluster
is used
to justify text that contains no interword spacing such as found in some Asian languages.
A value of
inter-ideograph
can justify lines of ideographic text dealing with spaces
between both ideograms and words.
Example
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
width: 250px;">
This paragraph is not only justified, but the text-justify property
is set to a value that makes the last line justify as well.
</p>
Compatibility
CSS3
IE 5+
Notes
• Under IE 8 this property is known as
-ms-text-justify
to correctly show it is
an extension.
• MSDN documentation presents a value of
distribute-center-last
as being
defined, though it indicates it is not implemented and does not say what it does.
However, it could be inferred from its name that it does the same thing as
distribute
but centers the final line.
• The CSS3 Text module does support this property with a value of
Tibetan
as well.
There is considerable detail in the justification algorithms. Hopefully, this can be
correctly implemented in user agents, so justified text will become desirable because
of its' improved readability and be more commonly used in Web documents.
text-kashida-space
This Microsoft-proposed CSS property defines the ratio between Kashida expansion and
whitespace expansion in justified text. Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic
writing systems to elongate characters during the justification process.
Syntax
text-kashida-space:
percentage
| inherit
Example
.whiteOnly {text-align: justify;
text-kashida-space: 0%;}
.stretchSome {text-align: justify; text-kashida-space: 50%;}
.stretchAll {text-kashida-space: 100%;}
Compatibility
No specification
IE 5.5+
