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`text-combine-upright` CSS property

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The text-combine-upright CSS property sets the combination of characters into the space of a single character. If the combined text is wider than 1em, the user agent must fit the contents within 1em. The resulting composition is treated as a single upright glyph for layout and decoration. This property only has an effect in vertical writing modes.

This is used to produce an effect that is known as tate-chū-yoko 縦中横 in Japanese, or as 橫向文字 in Chinese.

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text-combine-upright: none;
text-combine-upright: all;
<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div>
    <p>
      <span class="transition-all" id="example-element"
        >2022<span>年</span>12<span>月</span>8</span
      >日から楽しい
    </p>
  </div>
</section>
p {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}

Syntax

/* Keyword values */
text-combine-upright: none;
text-combine-upright: all;

/* Global values */
text-combine-upright: inherit;
text-combine-upright: initial;
text-combine-upright: revert;
text-combine-upright: revert-layer;
text-combine-upright: unset;

Values

This property is specified as one of the following keyword values:

  • none
    • : There is no special processing.
  • all
    • : Attempts to typeset all consecutive characters within the box horizontally, such that they take up the space of a single character within the vertical line of the box.

[!NOTE] The CSS writing modes module defines a digits <integer> value for the text-combine-upright property to display two to four consecutive ASCII digits (U+0030–U+0039) such that it takes up the space of a single character within the vertical line box, however, this is not supported in any browsers.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

Examples

Using ‘all’ with horizontal text

The all value requires markup around every piece of horizontal text, but it is currently supported by more browsers than the digits value.

HTML

<p lang="zh-Hant">
  民國<span class="num">105</span>年<span class="num">4</span>月<span
    class="num"
    >29</span
  >日
</p>

CSS

html {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
  font: 24px serif;
}
.num {
  text-combine-upright: all;
}

Results

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Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also