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CSSWG to start working on "fit to width" text! github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

github.com[css-fonts-4] Feature for making text always fit the width of its parent · Issue #2528 · w3c/csswg-draftsThis thread shows that it's a widely required feature: https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/979363460411609091 Example of a workaround: Open https://tobireif.com/ and (eg using dev tools respons...

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Bart Veneman

@veneman.dev

1 Apr 2025

Is this another one of those things that we can now do because of css containment? I sometimes wonder how many new features still piggyback off of that.

Zach Leatherman

@zachleat.com

1 Apr 2025

yay! I did this as a jquery plugin back in 2011 😱 www.zachleat.com/web/bigtext-...

zachleat.comBigText Makes Text Big—zachleat.comThe BigText jQuery plugin takes a single element and sizes the text inside of its child block elements to fit the width of the parent element., A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Yessss

@benschwarz.bsky.social

1 Apr 2025

I’m loving the css speed run that’s happening atm - all these things have been broken / lacking my entire career are now being resolved

Peter Cruckshank (he/him)

@petecapecod.bsky.social

1 Apr 2025

YES the age old problem of text spilling out of its parent and just *killing* your design ✨👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Man CSS just keeps getting more awesome 💯