Intent to Ship: `text-justify` CSS property

[TAMURA, Kent]

Contact emails

tk...@chromium.org

Specification

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#text-justify-property

Summary

Support of `text-justify` CSS property Web authors can control how text is justified when `text-align: justify` is applied by using the `text-justify` property. For example, they can force justification by expanding inter-character space even in English text.

Blink component

Blink>Layout>Inline

Web Feature ID

text-justify

Motivation

See the summary field.

Initial public proposal

No information provided

Search tags

text-justify, CSS

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Not applicable

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

Very low risks. It's a new CSS property, and its behavior matches another browser that already supports it.

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/590) No responses.

Web developers: Positive (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40321528) The issue has 24 votes.

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None.

Debuggability

The existing DevTools features are enough.

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes
https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text/text-justify

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

CssTextJusitfy

Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40321528

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop	145
Shipping on Android	145
Shipping on WebView	145

Anticipated spec changes

None.

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5079678972985344?gate=6280456467251200

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGH7WqHkLnz-qs%3DsWUgjNogWVv4dYvN1VKaJHVB21gQiRDJScA%40mail.gmail.com

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Philip Jägenstedt]

LGTM1

Before shipping, can you investigate why https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text/text-justify/text-justify-word-separators.html is failing in the same way on all browsers? Is the test broken or is there something missing in the implementation?

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+...@chromium.org.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGH7WqGKEA45mWLgvTHCX_NEZVyhbA8xUBWV9upboVrBDfRv4g%40mail.gmail.com.

[TAMURA, Kent]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM Philip Jägenstedt <foo...@chromium.org> wrote:

LGTM1

Before shipping, can you investigate why https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text/text-justify/text-justify-word-separators.html is failing in the same way on all browsers? Is the test broken or is there something missing in the implementation?

The css-text specification now includes more characters for word separation, and no browsers implement them yet. This also affects the "word-spacing" property, so we'd like to ship it separately.

--

TAMURA Kent
Software Engineer, Google

[Mike Taylor]

On 12/12/25 5:06 a.m., TAMURA, Kent wrote:

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM Philip Jägenstedt <foo...@chromium.org> wrote:

LGTM1

Before shipping, can you investigate why https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text/text-justify/text-justify-word-separators.html is failing in the same way on all browsers? Is the test broken or is there something missing in the implementation?

The css-text specification now includes more characters for word separation, and no browsers implement them yet. This also affects the "word-spacing" property, so we'd like to ship it separately.

LGTM2

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGH7WqGTkKad%3DU%3DGhvf%2BxVOsQ19zvvU-RsjRuCoPq%3DisHdgyjA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Yoav Weiss (@Shopify)]

LGTM3

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/87acd44d-2afa-4b8b-a879-661f4873158d%40chromium.org.