Utilities for controlling an element's white-space property.
Use whitespace-normal
to cause text to wrap normally within an element. Newlines and spaces will be collapsed.
<div class="w-3/4 ...">
<div class="whitespace-normal ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Omnis quidem itaque beatae, rem tenetur quia iure,
eum natus enim maxime
laudantium quibusdam illo nihil,
reprehenderit saepe quam aliquid odio accusamus.</div>
</div>
Use whitespace-nowrap
to prevent text from wrapping within an element. Newlines and spaces will be collapsed.
<div class="w-3/4 overflow-x-auto ...">
<div class="whitespace-nowrap ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Omnis quidem itaque beatae, rem tenetur quia iure,
eum natus enim maxime
laudantium quibusdam illo nihil,
reprehenderit saepe quam aliquid odio accusamus.</div>
</div>
<div class="w-3/4 overflow-x-auto ...">
<div class="whitespace-pre ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Omnis quidem itaque beatae, rem tenetur quia iure,
eum natus enim maxime
laudantium quibusdam illo nihil,
reprehenderit saepe quam aliquid odio accusamus.</div>
</div>
Use whitespace-pre-line
to preserve newlines but not spaces within an element. Text will be wrapped normally.
<div class="w-3/4 ...">
<div class="whitespace-pre-line ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Omnis quidem itaque beatae, rem tenetur quia iure,
eum natus enim maxime
laudantium quibusdam illo nihil,
reprehenderit saepe quam aliquid odio accusamus.</div>
</div>
Use whitespace-pre-wrap
to preserve newlines and spaces within an element. Text will be wrapped normally.
<div class="w-3/4 ...">
<div class="whitespace-pre-wrap ...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Omnis quidem itaque beatae, rem tenetur quia iure,
eum natus enim maxime
laudantium quibusdam illo nihil,
reprehenderit saepe quam aliquid odio accusamus.</div>
To control the whitespace property of an element only at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}:
prefix to any existing whitespace utility. For example, adding the class md:whitespace-pre
to an element would apply the whitespace-pre
utility at medium screen sizes and above.
<div class="whitespace-normal md:whitespace-pre ...">
<!-- ... -->
</div>
For more information about Tailwind's responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.
By default, only responsive variants are generated for whitespace utilities.
You can control which variants are generated for the whitespace utilities by modifying the whitespace
property in the variants
section of your tailwind.config.js
file.
For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
variants: {
extend: {
// ...
+ whitespace: ['hover', 'focus'],
}
}
}
If you don't plan to use the whitespace utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the whitespace
property to false
in the corePlugins
section of your config file:
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
corePlugins: {
// ...
+ whitespace: false,
}
}