text-autospace

A new property that automatically adds small amounts of spacing between different types of characters (like between ideographs and non-ideographs in mixed-language text) to improve readability.

It is documented as part of the CSS Text specification.

/* Usage Example */
article {
  /* Automatically handles spacing between Latin and CJK characters */
  text-autospace: auto;
}

/* Syntax */
text-autospace: normal;
text-autospace: auto;

/* Global values */
text-autospace: inherit;
text-autospace: initial;
text-autospace: revert;
text-autospace: revert-layer;
text-autospace: unset;
Limited availability Since 2020 76% global usage

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

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