Bootstrap 6 Text Wrapping

Text wrapping

Control how text wraps, overflows, and breaks inside its container.

Class	Styles
.text-wrap	white-space: normal;
.text-nowrap	white-space: nowrap;
.text-break	word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;
.text-balance	text-wrap: balance;
.text-pretty	text-wrap: pretty;

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Wrapping

Wrap text with a .text-wrap class.

This text should wrap.

html

<div class="badge text-bg-primary text-wrap" style="width: 6rem;">
  This text should wrap.
</div>

Prevent text from wrapping with a .text-nowrap class.

This text should overflow the parent.

html

<div class="text-nowrap bg-4 border" style="width: 8rem;">
  This text should overflow the parent.
</div>

Balance and pretty

.text-balance evens out the line lengths of short runs of text — headings, teasers — so no line is left with a lone word. .text-pretty asks the browser for better-looking wrapping of body text, at some rendering cost.

A heading balanced across its lines

A longer run of body text the browser wraps with fewer awkward line endings than the default.

html

<h4 class="text-balance bg-4 border" style="width: 15rem;">A heading balanced across its lines</h4>
<p class="text-pretty bg-4 border" style="width: 15rem;">A longer run of body text the browser wraps with fewer awkward line endings than the default.</p>

Word break

Prevent long strings of text from breaking your components’ layout by using .text-break to set word-wrap: break-word and word-break: break-word. We use word-wrap instead of the more common overflow-wrap for wider browser support, and add the deprecated word-break: break-word to avoid issues with flex containers.

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html

<p class="text-break">mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm</p>

Note that breaking words isn’t possible in Arabic, which is the most used RTL language. Therefore .text-break is removed from our RTL compiled CSS.

Customizing

Utilities API

Text wrapping utilities are declared in our utilities API in scss/_utilities.scss. Learn how to use the utilities API.

scss

"white-space": (
  property: white-space,
  class: text,
  values: (
    wrap: normal,
    nowrap: nowrap,
  )
),
"word-wrap": (
  property: word-wrap word-break,
  class: text,
  values: (break: break-word),
),
"text-wrap": (
  property: text-wrap,
  class: text,
  values: balance pretty,
),