text-spacing-trim | CSS CSS Properties

A modern property that helps manage the spacing between characters in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) typography. It specifically handles how 'half-width' punctuation and characters should be spaced to keep the layout looking clean.

Quick example

article.cjk-text {
  /* Trims the extra space from the start of the first line for a cleaner edge */
  text-spacing-trim: trim-start;
}

Quick facts

Initial value

normal

Inherited

Yes

Applies to

text elements

Animation type

discrete

Values

space-allnormalspace-firsttrim-start

text-spacing-trim Browser Support

Limited availability 71% 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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