17119 2012-05-20 01:19:29 +0000 CSS text-align:justify; with HTML <br /> 2012-05-25 02:08:13 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS Text unspecified Other other NEW http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 enhancement --- 1 contributor fantasai.bugs email kojiishi mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 67920 0 contributor 2012-05-20 01:19:29 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20120329/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: CSS text-align:justify; and html <br /> do not work well together. This is less a bug than a nuisance. When a browser sees a <br /> it breaks the line there and left aligns the line it is on, which is normally not the desired result. for the <br /> we need something like either <br wrap='yes'> or <br style='wrap:yes'>. The work around to this problem is to put lines between <span class='word-spacing: ,,,> </span> elements, but that is ugly. Howard_Cary_Morris@hotmail.com Posted from: 98.66.7.23 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 68097 1 email 2012-05-25 02:07:10 +0000 This is more of a stylistic issue than an HTML issue, but it is a valid concern. One suggestion may be to adopt the model my old WordPerfect did back in the day: have two different values of text-align in CSS, "justify" and "full", to accommodate both preferences.