People who want their page layout to closely resemble print layout often "justify" their text so that each line of text will be equal length. Use justify carefully though, or you could have some unexpected browser display problems.

Browsers may not display the same page elements consistently. For instance, a common font like Arial may display in a completely different typeface in Netscape than Explorer if you leave out the size attribute.

Similarly, the justified text that looks great in one browser may look quite different when viewed in another.

As a general rule, never justify paragraphs that take less than two complete lines to display. Otherwise, you could get really unusual word spacing and/or duplicate words!

Also, it pays to remember that publishing words on a website is not the same as publishing words in a book. Whereas words on a page in a book may be easy to read in bed, on the bus, on a plane; it is irritating and tiresome for the eyes when you are reading them off a lit screen. I repeat - you want people to enjoy reading what you put on your website - with ease, freely and in a relaxed way, and not force their eyes to read stretched text to specified parameters. If people want to do that, why visit your website? They can go buy a book!

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