The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We'll take a look at how we got here and how we might change our perspective. Let's think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout.
While we wait for browsers to implement the text-wrap: balance; #CSS property and value for text (pleeeeeease! 🙏), I may have created a silly — and probably sub-optimal — function to do it with HTML block elements:
https://codepen.io/nhoizey/pen/mdjbrVx
Tell me what you think!
But why? Just because a colleague needed it, we could not find a solution in pure CSS, and I like challenges… 😅
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