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text-autospace property

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Specifies the spacing rules between Western and Asian-based (such as Japanese and Chinese) characters.

In many Asian writing systems, such as Japanese and Chinese, there are ideographs that represent concepts rather than letters. With the text-autospace property you have control over how spaces between ideographs and non-ideographic characters in are presented.

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

Possible values:

One of the following values:

ideograph-alpha

Inserts extra spaces between ideographic and non-ideographic (Latin-based, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, or Hebrew) text.

ideograph-numeric

Inserts extra spaces between ideographic text and numeric characters.

ideograph-parenthesis

Inserts extra spaces between normal (non-wide) parentheses and ideographs.

ideograph-space

Extends the width of the space character when it is adjacent to ideographs.

none

No extra space is added.

Default: none.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the text-autospace property:

<head>
    <style>
        .spaceNone {
            text-autospace: none;
        }
        .spaceIdeoNum {
            text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div>Autospace none: </div>
    <p class="spaceNone">1一 2二 3三 4四 5五 6六 7七 8八 9九 10十</p>
    <br />
    <div>Autospace ideograph-numeric: </div>
    <p class="spaceIdeoNum">1一 2二 3三 4四 5五 6六 7七 8八 9九 10十</p>
</body>