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Adding hyphenation

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Adding hyphenation

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- [Instructor] If you've read any materials printed on paper lately, like a book, a magazine, or a newspaper, you will undoubtedly see hyphenated words at the ends of lines of text. It's possible to add hyphens on the web, as well. And it's even really easy to do, at least for English. The property is called hyphens. It's described here on the Mozilla Developer Network, MDN. And unfortunately, the browser support leaves something to be desired if you want to write your webpage in a language other than English. So this of course is caniuse.com, and as you can here as of this recording about 96.5% of users have access to this, but unprefixed is only 77%, so I will show you how to write the prefixed code here for writing hyphens. And this first box at the top of the page has to do with English, so this is how hyphens would be put in for that. But, of course, there are other languages that are out there, so if I just…

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