Web Design Garage

Chapter 50. Controlling Justified and Ragged Type

Justified lines of type have the same length. To create this effect, the browser pads shorter lines with extra space, as in Figure 50.1.

Figure 50.1. The paragraph on the left is justified. In justified type, the browser pads shorter lines with extra space so that they're all the same length.

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GEEKSPEAK Justified lines of type have the same length.

One way to create justified text in HTML is to set the align attribute of the tag in question to the value justify:

<p align="justify">This paragraph has justified text.</p>

But CSS makes this method obsolete. Include the text-align ...