CSS Hyphenation

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Method of controlling when words at the end of lines should be hyphenated using the "hyphens" property.

Chrome

  1. ❌ 4 - 54: Not supported
  2. ◐ 55 - 87: Partial support
  3. ✅ 88 - 153: Supported
  4. ✅ 154: Supported
  5. ✅ 155 - 157: Supported

Edge

  1. ✅ 12 - 18: Supported
  2. ◐ 79 - 87: Partial support
  3. ◐ 88 - 104: Partial support
  4. ✅ 105 - 153: Supported
  5. ✅ 154: Supported

Safari

  1. ❌ 3.1 - 5: Not supported
  2. ✅ 5.1 - 16.6: Supported
  3. ✅ 17.0 - 26.6: Supported
  4. ✅ 27: Supported
  5. ✅ 27.1 - TP: Supported

Firefox

  1. ❌ 2 - 5: Not supported
  2. ✅ 6 - 42: Supported
  3. ✅ 43 - 156: Supported
  4. ✅ 157: Supported
  5. ✅ 158 - 160: Supported

Opera

  1. ❌ 9 - 41: Not supported
  2. ◐ 42 - 90: Partial support
  3. ✅ 91 - 134: Supported
  4. ✅ 135: Supported

IE

  1. ❌ 5.5 - 9: Not supported
  2. ✅ 10: Supported
  3. ✅ 11: Supported

Chrome for Android

  1. ✅ 154: Supported

Safari on iOS

  1. ❌ 3.2 - 4.1: Not supported
  2. ✅ 4.2 - 16.7: Supported
  3. ✅ 17.0 - 26.6: Supported
  4. ✅ 27.0: Supported
  5. ✅ 27.1 - 27.2: Supported

Samsung Internet

  1. ❌ 4: Not supported
  2. ◐ 5: Partial support
  3. ✅ 6.2 - 29: Supported
  4. ✅ 30: Supported

Opera Mini

  1. ❌ all: Not supported

Opera Mobile

  1. ❌ 10 - 12.1: Not supported
  2. ✅ 80: Supported

UC Browser for Android

  1. ✅ 15.5: Supported

Android Browser

  1. ❌ 2.1 - 4.4.4: Not supported
  2. ✅ 154: Supported

Firefox for Android

  1. ✅ 157: Supported

QQ Browser

  1. ✅ 14.9: Supported

Baidu Browser

  1. ✅ 13.52: Supported

KaiOS Browser

  1. ✅ 2.5: Supported
  2. ✅ 3: Supported

Chrome < 55 and Android 4.0 Browser support "-webkit-hyphens: none", but not the "auto" property. It is advisable to set the @lang attribute on the HTML element to enable hyphenation support and improve accessibility.

Resources:
Chromium bug for implementing hyphenation
WebKit bug to unprefix `-webkit-hyphens`
Blog post
MDN Web Docs - CSS hyphens
WebPlatform Docs