🏠 New in High Baseline Support: Hyphenation

March 18, 2026

caniuse · mdn · spec

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.

Source features

• css.properties.hyphens [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_english [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_croatian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_danish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_french [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_german_reformed_orthography [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_hungarian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_norwegian_no [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_portuguese [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_spanish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.auto [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_dutch [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_italian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_russian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_swedish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_ukrainian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_czech [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_norwegian_nn [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_bulgarian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_estonian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_german_swiss_orthography [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_german_traditional_orthography [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_latin [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_slovenian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_welsh [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_afrikaans [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_galician [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_lithuanian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_slovak [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_catalan [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_finnish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_polish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_turkish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_armenian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_assamese [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_basque [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_belarusian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_bengali [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_cyrillic_mongolian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_ethiopic_script_und [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_gujarati [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_hindi [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_irish [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_kannada [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_malayalam [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_marathi [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_old_slavonic [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_oriya [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_punjabi [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_tamil [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_telugu [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_turkmen [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_albanian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_amharic [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_ethiopic_script_mul [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_georgian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_latvian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_modern_greek [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_bosnian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_esperanto [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_icelandic [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_interlingua [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_kurmanji [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_mongolian [mdn]
• css.properties.hyphens.language_upper_sorbian [mdn]