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Geoff@geoffgraham•Jul 14, 2025
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Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)

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Explores CSS techniques for controlling line length to improve text readability, following WCAG guidelines of maximum 80 characters per line. Covers using character units (ch), clamp() and min() functions for responsive line length, plus methods to fit text to containers using JavaScript with SVG or pure CSS with container queries. Also discusses proposed text-grow and text-shrink properties that could simplify text fitting in the future.

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