CSS hyphenate-limit-chars Property - Playground Example

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style type="text/css">/* Page layout */
body {
  font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial;
  padding: 24px;
  line-height: 1.45;
  color: #222;
  background: #f7f7f7;
}

.container {
  max-width: 980px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

/* Example cards */
.examples {
  display: flex;
  gap: 20px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.example {
  background: #fff;
  padding: 16px;
  border-radius: 8px;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
  width: 280px;
}

.example h2 {
  font-size: 14px;
  margin: 0 0 8px 0;
}

/* Base hyphenation settings */
.example p {
  margin: 0;
  text-align: justify;
  -webkit-hyphens: auto;
  -ms-hyphens: auto;
  hyphens: auto;
}

/* Different hyphenate-limit-chars usages */
.limit-4-2 {
  /* allow hyphenation only if at least 4 chars remain before the break and at least 2 after */
  hyphenate-limit-chars: 4 2;
}

.limit-6-3 {
  /* stricter limits: at least 6 chars before and 3 after the break */
  hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3;
}

.no-hyphen {
  hyphens: none;
}
</style></head><body><div class="container">
  <h1>CSS hyphenate-limit-chars  -  examples</h1>
  <div class="examples">
    <section class="example">
      <h2>hyphenate-limit-chars: 4 2</h2>
      <p class="limit-4-2">
        The extraordinarily longwordexample demonstrates how hyphenation breaks words such as internationalization and characteristically when the container becomes narrow.
      </p>
    </section>

    <section class="example">
      <h2>hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3</h2>
      <p class="limit-6-3">
        Mischaracterization and hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia are intentionally long to show the effect of a stricter hyphenation limit in a constrained layout.
      </p>
    </section>

    <section class="example">
      <h2>No hyphenation (hyphens: none)</h2>
      <p class="no-hyphen">
        In this example hyphenation is disabled so long words will overflow or wrap without hyphen insertion.
      </p>
    </section>
  </div>
</div></body></html>