Skip to content

Explain the typographic rationale for text-autospace #46251

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
SIBTAIN-ASAD wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Explain the typographic rationale for text-autospace #46251

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/text-autospace/index.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ sidebar: cssref

The **`text-autospace`** [CSS](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS) property allows you to specify the space applied between Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) and non-CJK characters.

In mixed-script text, typographic conventions may call for a small amount of space between CJK characters and Latin letters or numbers. This separation helps distinguish adjacent scripts without requiring authors to insert whitespace characters into the content.

## Syntax

```css
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -176,3 +178,5 @@ chose.addEventListener("change", (e) => {
- {{cssxref('text-spacing-trim')}}
- [`ic`](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Values_and_units/Numeric_data_types#local_font-relative_lengths) and [`ric`](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Values_and_units/Numeric_data_types#root_font-relative_lengths) units
- [CSS Text](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Text) module
- [Mixed text composition in horizontal writing mode](https://www.w3.org/International/clreq/#mixed_text_composition_in_horizontal_writing_mode) in Requirements for Chinese Text Layout
- [Composition of Japanese and Western Mixed Texts](https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#composition_of_japanese_and_western_mixed_texts) in Requirements for Japanese Text Layout
Loading