Deprecated. Sets or retrieves the ratio of kashida expansion to white space expansion when justifying lines of text in the object.
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Syntax
-ms-text-kashida-space: percentage
Property values
percentage-
An integer, followed by a %. The value is the ratio of kashida expansion to white space expansion. 100% specifies kashida expansion only, and 0% specifies white space expansion only
CSS information
| Applies To | All elements |
|---|---|
| Media | visual |
| Inherited | 1 |
| Initial Value | 0% |
Standards information
- CSS Text Level 3, Section 8.3
Remarks
This property is deprecated and is not supported in Windows Internet Explorer 8 and higher document compatibility modes. It is still available for use in Internet Explorer 8 and later when the page is in either IE5 (Quirks) mode or IE7 Standards mode. For more information about document compatibility modes, see Defining document compatibility.
Kashida is a typographic effect that justifies lines of text by elongating characters at carefully chosen points. It is used in Arabic writing systems.
Kashida justification increases the length of a line by elongating cursive (Arabic) characters at certain points. The semantics of text-kashida and -ms-text-kashida-space are opposite each other: "text-kashida:100%" is nearly equivalent to "text-kashida-space:0%".
For the -ms-text-kashida-space property to have any effect, you must also set the text-align property to "justify". (Setting text-justify property to "kashida" is not required.)
The -ms-text-kashida-space property is read-only for the IHTMLCurrentStyle2 interface (C++) and currentStyle object (script).
The -ms-text-kashida-space property applies to block elements only.
See also
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