text justify in Dreamweaver

[pne]

I'm using Dreamweaver 3 and having problems with text justification. It will justify left, right and centre but not justify exactly to fit. Any ideas apart from manually adjusting each.

Many thanks,

pne

[HardCoded]

p.j{ text-align:justify; }
...
...
<p class="j">I want to be justified.</p>

[Niko Holopainen]

Just to add, there are compatibility issues with justify, but the code above is fine with those that it works with.

Regards,

[paulhiles]

I'll also add my two pence worth... justifying narrow columns of text can result in rather odd looking lines appearing with say three words s p r e a d out along one line, and the following line having five or six normally spaced. IMO this looks ugly, and would have most layout or graphic designers wincing and screwing up their noses! :o)

Take a look at the following thread, posted recently by kingsman.
What constitutes good text layout?

[pne]

Paul,

Understand the potential problem clearly. Difficulty is that Dreamweaver 3 doesn't give the option to justify and was looking for clear, clean and simple solution which doesn't involve manually changing code. Any ideas?

pne

[paulhiles]

How about creating a class in your stylesheet that would justify the text?

.justified {text-align: justify;}

You could then apply it to paragraphs / blocks of text wherever you see fit (as below)

<p class="justified">justified text in here</p>

PS. Just noticed this is almost the same solution as HardCoded!