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layout-grid property

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Specifies up to four separate layout-grid properties that specify the layout of text characters.

If you want to display characters that use a one or two-dimensional grid layout, such as Chinese and Japanese, you can use the layout-grid property to display them properly in web pages.

JavaScript page for this property: layoutGrid. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

Values in this order (use the space character to separate them):

<layout-grid-mode>

possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

<layout-grid-type>

Values in this order (use the space character to separate them):

<layout-grid-line>

<layout-grid-char>

Description of values:

layout-grid-char

Specifies the size of the character grid for the layout of an element's text content.

layout-grid-line

Specifies the gridline value used for laying out Japanese or Chinese characters in a web document.

layout-grid-mode

Specifies whether the text layout grid uses one or two dimensions.

layout-grid-type

Specifies the type of grid to be used for laying out Japanese or Chinese characters in a web document.

Default: both loose none none.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the layout-grid property:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            layout-grid: both fixed 15px 15px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example">layout-grid: both fixed 15px 15px</div>
</body>