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Old Jul 31st, 2008, 12:43
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Question about text justify

Hi,

I wanted to know why text justify is not considered favorable when writing content for web-pages?
Heres a screenshot from a test website which uses
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text-align:justify
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font-family:"DejaVu sans",Verdana,"sans serif"
I am not a design expert but visually it looks pretty okay to me.

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Re: Question about text justify

I'm not sure about this, but I think its because in some cases it can end up looking pretty bad. The gaps between the words can get very large. I'm sure theres another reason though.
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Re: Question about text justify

Personally I'm not a fan of text-align: justify - but it looks pretty good on the image you posted.
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Re: Question about text justify

text-align:justify is ok as long as you are careful with the max-width etc of your containers.
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