Comments on: hanging-punctuation https://css-tricks.com Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets. Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Kerry Smyth https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1794802 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:13:03 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1794802 Thanks Chris for the write up. I have been rereading ’thinking with type’ by Ellen Lupton. I had a webpage with a few quotes that didn’t look great. I used your idea of negative text indent but switched up the unit value to ch like so.

text-indent: -1ch; or
text-indent: -0.8ch;

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By: Joel https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1607096 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:32:59 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1607096 In reply to Justin McDowell.

Turns out you can in Safari’s implementation.

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By: Gunnar Bittersmann https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1601578 Tue, 17 May 2016 07:10:32 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1601578 > text-indent: -0.5em; /* Change according to your font */

Beware of magic numbers! Whatever value you choose, it fits for you but might not fit for others.

Positioning the punctuation marks absolutely should fit for all. For opening punctuation marks, see slide 38.

If you don’t want to wrap all your punctuation marks that should hang in spans in your markup, see the JavaScript on the slide before. (Change x-l to your needs, maybe p.)

Note that this works only on punctuation marks at the beginning of a paragraph, not on all punctuation marks that happen to appear at the beginning of a line after a line break.

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By: Justin McDowell https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1600039 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 22:30:03 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1600039 Could also double up?:
hanging-punctuation: first last;

Or must we only choose one side?

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By: Matt McDowell https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1597733 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:29:57 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1597733 <blockquote>jQuery.exdent - A small jQuery plugin to enable hanging punctuation, an advanced typographic feature.</blockquote>

http://boldewyn.github.io/jQuery.exdent/

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By: Sean McEmerson https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1593349 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:12:32 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1593349 Medium currently does this with JS and CSS.

It finds paragraphs beginning with a quote mark and then adds a CSS selector that has a negative text indent applied.

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By: Brian https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1582803 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:21:12 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1582803 In reply to J. Hogue.

J. Hogue, I’m not sure what exactly is happening and I’m not too familiar with css3 and multiple columns, but it appears the visual area that the quote occupies, is no longer in the visual bounding box of the column. I tested in Chrome, and set the margin-left of the 2nd column to -1em, then set the padding on the q to 1 em. After doing this the quote was visible and “hanging” like the single column example. I say “hanging” in the sense that it only appears to hang and you would have to adjust everything in the column accordingly to make it work. This feels hacky and probably isn’t worth the additional effort when considering messing with margins etc. Also, I have no idea how other browsers would render it either :/ That being said, I hope you find this useful in some way!

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By: J. Hogue https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-1534779 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:22:39 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-1534779 In working on a client project I happening across what I think is a browser bug, but would like some validation.

I would have loved hanging-puncuation to be ready, so instead, I used negative text-indent on a p > q declaration. Works great in most instances, but when inside CSS3 columns, the punctuation disappears and no amount of overflow: visible brings it back.

Here’s a CodePen: http://cdpn.io/xkcgw
Anyone have any insight into what is happening here?

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By: michael matyus https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/h/hanging-punctuation/#comment-534959 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:00:17 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=20554#comment-534959 I long for the day that we have control over typography in the way that programs like InDesign give us.

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