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.

Quick example

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

Quick facts

Initial value
normal
Inherited
Yes
Applies to
text elements
Animation type
discrete

Values

normalauto

text-autospace Browser Support

Limited availability 76% global usage

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

Not ready for production without a fallback.

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