Text Wrap

Basic usage

Wrap

Use text-wrap to wrap overflowing text onto multiple lines at logical points in the text.

<article class="text-wrap ...">
  <h3>Beloved Manhattan soup stand closes</h3>
  <p>New Yorkers are facing the winter chill...</p>
</article>

No Wrap

Use text-nowrap to prevent text from wrapping, allowing it to overflow if necessary.

<article class="text-nowrap ...">
  <h3>Beloved Manhattan soup stand closes</h3>
  <p>New Yorkers are facing the winter chill...</p>
</article>

Balance

Use text-balance to distribute the text evenly across each line.

<article>
  <h3 class="text-balance ...">Beloved Manhattan soup stand closes</h3>
  <p>New Yorkers are facing the winter chill...</p>
</article>

For performance reasons browsers limit text balancing to blocks that are ~6 lines or less, making it best suited for headings.

Pretty

Use text-pretty to prevent orphans (a single word on its own line) at the end of a text block.

<article class="text-pretty ...">
  <h3>Beloved Manhattan soup stand closes</h3>
  <p>New Yorkers are facing the winter chill...</p>
</article>

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Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:text-balance to only apply the text-balance utility on hover.

<h1 class="text-wrap hover:text-balance">
  <!-- ... -->
</h1>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:text-balance to apply the text-balance utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<h1 class="text-wrap md:text-balance">
  <!-- ... -->
</h1>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.