Thread: Force text alignment
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Old 03-12-2018, 02:34 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
So without an alignment specified in CSS, what happens to Kindles that don't have an option to change the alignment? What is the default alignment for those Kindles? Amazon cannot say the alignment has to be set in the options if there aren't such options.
The CSS spec says that if unspecified it should default to “a nameless value that acts as 'left' if 'direction' is 'ltr', 'right' if 'direction' is 'rtl'”. So for English, it should act as left-justified/ragged-right; for Arabic it should act as right-justified/ragged-left.

However, older (pre-enhanced-typography) Kindles default to full justification. https://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678...at-doesnt-suck discusses the switch (made in 2015).
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