text-justify Attribute | textJustify Property

Sets or retrieves the type of alignment used to justify text in the object .

Syntax

HTML Scripting

{ text-justify : sAlign }

object.style.textJustify [ = sAlign ]

Possible Values

sAlign

String that specifies or receives one of the following values.

auto	Default. Allows the browser to determine which justification algorithm to apply.
distribute	Handles spacing much like the newspaper value. This form of justification is optimized for documents in Asian languages, such as Thai.
distribute-all-lines	Justifies lines of text in the same way as the distribute value, except that it also justifies the last line of the paragraph. This form of justification is intended for ideographic text.
distribute-center-last	Not implemented.
inter-cluster	Justifies lines of text that contain no inter-word spacing. This form of justification is optimized for documents in Asian languages.
inter-ideograph	Justifies lines of ideographic text, and increases or decreases both inter-ideograph and inter-word spacing.
inter-word	Aligns text by increasing the space between words. This value's spacing behavior is the fastest way to make all lines of text equal in length. Its justification behavior does not affect the last line of the paragraph.
kashida	Justifies lines of text by elongating characters at chosen points. This form of justification is intended for Arabic script languages. Supported in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 and later.
newspaper	Increases or decreases the spacing between letters and between words. It is the most sophisticated form of justification for Latin alphabets.

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle . The property has a default value of auto . The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is inherited.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties .

Remarks

For this property to affect text layout, the textAlign property must be set to justify .

The property applies to block elements.

Examples

The following examples use the text-justify attribute and the textJustify property to align text within the object.

This example uses an inline style sheet to distribute all the lines within the object.

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This example uses inline scripting to change the alignment of the text when an onmouseover event occurs.

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Standards Information

This property is part of a proposed addition to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) .

Applies To

Platform Version

Win16:
Win32:
Unix:
Mac:
Windows CE:

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