


I used to use it on my website's home page, though I've since moved away from that since I figured that consistently using left alignment would be more quickly readable. The right alignment option is less useful, but I still see it used in some cases, mainly for visual flair. For short spans of text, though, it's usually fine, e.g. It has its own accessibility issue: the starting position of a line changes every line, which can be annoying during reading. (And CSS support for automatic hyphens appears to be less than ideal across browsers.)Īs for the other text alignment options, center alignment is obviously very popular. But in the context of websites, the number of words per line often changes depending on the screen width, so manually inserted hyphens are rarely a good idea (and are annoying to have to insert anyway). On paper, hyphens are carefully set to ensure a mostly consistent spacing between words. Of course, a plugin can add the option if you really want it, but since it is considered bad practice, it shouldn't be promoted as a visible option by a default WP I suppose instead of paraphrasing and potentially misrepresenting (which I probably did a bit in my prior post), I ought to just link to what an accessibility specification actually says: Because of that, it should probably be up to the theme (or else the upcoming Global Styles system) to set the default text alignment to justified.īecause of these factors, I don't think it makes sense to provide a (visible) option to set individual paragraph blocks to justified text alignment in core WordPress.

If you're using it, it's probably a general design choice that applies across your site. It's also worth noting that justified text is something you probably would never use on one or two blocks alone. So user feedback is actually why the option was removed in the first place.

