Web platform features explorer - text-wrap: balance

Web platform features explorer

The text-wrap: balance CSS declaration balances the length of each line when text is broken into multiple lines. Also known as headline balancing.

Status

Baseline Newly Available (since 2024-05-13)

This feature is expected to reach Baseline Widely Available status on: 2026-11-13

MDN documentation

Balance, in text-wrap

Specifications

CSS Text Module Level 4 (#valdef-text-wrap-style-balance), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).

Browser support

Chrome 114 Released on 2023-05-30
Chrome Android 114 Released on 2023-05-30
Edge 114 Released on 2023-06-02
Firefox 121 Released on 2023-12-19
Firefox for Android 121 Released on 2023-12-19
Safari 17.5 Released on 2024-05-13
Safari on iOS 17.5 Released on 2024-05-13

Developer signals

State of CSS 2025: features/all_features question
State of CSS 2024: usage/favorite_new_features question
State of CSS 2024: features/all_features question

Usage (according to Chrome Platform Status)

~1.493% of page loads. More data at chromestatus.

Interop

Included in Interop 2024

Web Platform Tests (WPT)

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