hyphenate-limit-lines

Summary

Indicates the maximum number of successive hyphenated lines in an element. The ‘no-limit’ value means that there is no limit.

Overview table

Initial value

no-limit

Applies to

block containers

Inherited

Yes

Media

visual

Computed value

specified value

Animatable

No

CSS Object Model Property

hyphenateLimitLines

Percentages

N/A

Syntax

• hyphenate-limit-lines: integer
• hyphenate-limit-lines: no-limit

Values

no-limit

Indicates that hyphenation is not limited based on the number of consecutive hyphenated lines. In the flow above the consecutive hyphenated lines limit would be an infinitely large positive number.

integer

Indicates the maximum number of successive hyphenated lines.

For instance, if 2, then no more than 2 successive lines may end with a hyphenated word. If 0 then no lines may end with a hyphenated word. (Hyphenation is effectively disabled.)

Negative values are not allowed.

Examples

/* Do not allow more than 2 successive hyphenated lines */
hyphenate-limit-lines: 2;

Related specifications

CSS Text Level 4

W3C Editor’s Draft

See also

Related articles

Text

• block-progression

• font-language-override

• font-size

• hyphenate-limit-chars

• hyphenate-limit-lines

• hyphenate-limit-zone

• hyphens

• ime-mode

• layout-grid

• layout-grid-char

• layout-grid-line

• layout-grid-mode

• layout-grid-type

• letter-spacing

• text-overflow-ellipsis

• text-overflow-mode

• text-rendering

• user-modify

• Text

• size

• b

• b

• br

• br

• caption

• cite

• code

• del

• dfn

• em

• font

• hr

• i

• ins

• kbd

• mark

• samp

• strong

• Achieving typographic effects with the canvas tag

Related pages

• CSSStyleDeclarationCSSStyleDeclaration

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]