Hyphenation

Regular text, references, and sublines are getting hyphenated by the user's browser. All common major browsers apply proper hyphenation in the most languages.

The main page headline (H1) and the chapter headlines (H2) are not hyphenated on desktop screens. For tablet and mobile hyphenation is enabled.

Web browsers will support more sophisticated hyphenation rules for websites. A new rule, the hyphenate-limit-chars property, will tell the browser how many characters a word should be before it’s hyphenated, as well as the minimum number of characters before and after the hyphen. This way, we can avoid awkward hyphenations, giving us an extra degree of control when it comes to how words flow from line to line.

Rules:

• Hyphenation only for words with at least 10 characters - IE Edge only.
• Hyphenation only takes place if
  • at least 5 characters remain in the same line - IE Edge, Safari only
  • at least 5 characters slip into the next line - IE Edge, Safari

Safari
Partially supported: Limitation of characters the word must have is not supported.

IE Edge
Full support.

Chrome
Full support on Chrome >= 109.

Firefox
Partially supported: Limitation of characters the word must have is not supported.

To avoid automatic hyphenation at all cost for some words, in particular product names or brand name, you can get in touch with the admins and provide them a list of words that should not be hyphenated.