CSS Properties: How to set justify property in the paragraph elements

Last update on February 24 2024 12:26:16 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set justify property in the paragraph elements</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Styles all paragraph elements */
    text-align: justify; /* Sets the text alignment of paragraphs to justify */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2><strong>w3resource Tutorial</strong></h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading with bold text "w3resource Tutorial" -->

<p>CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents.</p><!-- Displays a paragraph with the specified text -->

</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the text alignment property to justify for all paragraph elements using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The p selector styles all paragraph elements.
text-align: justify; sets the text alignment of paragraphs to justify, causing the text to be spread evenly across the width of the element with spaces between words.

Live Demo:

See the Pen text-justify-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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