Justify text in an inline span element?

[JAB Creations]

I'm having a sneaky suspicion that paragraphs are able to justify text because they are block level elements? I'd like to justify text inside a span element without it clearing other spans, is this possible in CSS 2?

- john

[Setek]

Hmm, I'm inclined to believe it can't be done.

Justification is taking up the measure because the line itself isn't long enough to do so naturally.

If it's an inline element, it is only as long as itself, therefore it takes up the width of its "measure" perfectly.

The only way I can see this working is by setting the

span

to display as block.

As you can see from the W3C, the

text-align

property only applies to block-level elements:

CSS 2, Chapter 16: Text [w3.org]

[Dabrowski]

Setek is right, can you explain what you're trying to do?