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why does'nt my text-align:justify work?

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csphard

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why does'nt my text-align:justify work?

text-align: right, text-align:center and text-align:left work. What am I missing about the text-align:justify?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style>
body{font-family:courier;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:center;}
body,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,span,ul,li {margin:0;padding:0;}
#container {text-align:left;margin:0 auto;width:600px;border:50px solid black;}
header h1 {color:blue;}
header span {display:none;}
#content {background-color:black;color:white;font-size:60px;width:600px;border:5px solid

white;letter-spacing:15px;text-align:justify;}
footer h1 {color:blue;}
footer span {display:none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<header><h1><span>header</span></h1></header>
<div id="content">
<h2>design</h2>
<h2>within</h2>
<h2>reach</h2>
</div>
<footer><h1><span>footer</span></h1></footer>

</div>
</html>

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Howard
 
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csphard said:
text-align: right, text-align:center and text-align:left work. What am I missing about the text-align:justify?
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Content.

Justify works on paragraphs of text, you have none.

Basically justify makes all lines of equal length in a paragraph provided there is enough content for it to happen.

Your content div has 3 header elements which aren't a paragraph. Also since there's only one word there's no way for justify to align them because the way justify works is it adds spaces between works in such a way as to make the lines be of equal length. Provided there is enough text in the line for it to not make it to obvious its doing it.

It won't work in very short lines in relation to other lines, and it technically is only noticeable when you have several lines of text.

Headers (h1-h6) are block level elements and as such can't be justified, And in your case their contents are a single word so will not be justified either.



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Thanks, I really appreciate your explaination. I went there and read the information from w3schools but it was not as clear as you were.

Thanks again.
 
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Glad I could help.

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Just to clarify something vacunita said, [tt]test-align:justify[/tt] does not only apply to paragraph elements. It'll apply to any element that has enough text in it to fill more than one line:
Code: 
<DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Table Test</title>
<style>
  #content {text-align:justify;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="content">
    <h1>This is way too much text to make a sensible heading, but if your browser window is narrow enough it <em>will</em> be justified</h1>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
It's just that it only really makes sense to apply [tt]text-align:justified[/tt] to paragraphs of text - headings aren't usually long enough to be justified, and when they are they generally look terrible.

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