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id: hyphens

Hyphenation

The hyphens CSS property controls when long words are broken by line wrapping. Although called hyphens, the property applies to word-splitting behavior across languages, such as customary spelling changes or the use of other characters. Support for non-English languages varies significantly.
Baseline Status: Achieved Widely Available on Mar 18, 2026 (Cross-browser Newly Available since Sep 18, 2023).
Desktop Browser Engine Support
Google Chrome
88
Supported
Mozilla Firefox
43
Supported
Apple Safari
17
Supported
Microsoft Edge
88
Supported
Mobile Browser Engine Support
Chrome Android
55
Firefox Android
43
Safari iOS
17
Specifications and References
Specification ↗ Can I Use (css-hyphens) ↗ Feature XML ↗
MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:
css.properties.hyphens ↗ css.properties.hyphens.auto ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_afrikaans ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_albanian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_amharic ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_armenian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_assamese ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_basque ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_belarusian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_bengali ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_bosnian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_bulgarian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_catalan ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_croatian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_cyrillic_mongolian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_czech ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_danish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_dutch ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_english ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_esperanto ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_estonian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_ethiopic_script_mul ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_ethiopic_script_und ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_finnish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_french ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_galician ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_georgian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_german_reformed_orthography ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_german_swiss_orthography ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_german_traditional_orthography ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_gujarati ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_hindi ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_hungarian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_icelandic ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_interlingua ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_irish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_italian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_kannada ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_kurmanji ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_latin ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_latvian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_lithuanian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_malayalam ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_marathi ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_modern_greek ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_mongolian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_norwegian_nn ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_norwegian_no ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_old_slavonic ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_oriya ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_polish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_portuguese ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_punjabi ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_russian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_slovak ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_slovenian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_spanish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_swedish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_tamil ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_telugu ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_turkish ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_turkmen ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_ukrainian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_upper_sorbian ↗ css.properties.hyphens.language_welsh ↗