Florian Rivoal | Line breaking and related properties from CSS Text | CSS Day 2019

Wrapping text into multiple lines may seem trivial at first, but there’s actually a lot of subtleties, and many possible variations. Even more so when you consider the diversity of typographical practices in various languages and writing systems, but even when you don’t. Luckily, CSS has tools to help you with that. However, as there is quite a few pieces interacting together, it may not be obvious at first sight how it all fits together, and the somewhat odd naming of the properties doesn’t help.