The Best CSS One-Liner 90% of Developers Aren’t Using in 2025

The Best CSS One-Liner 90% of Developers Aren’t Using in 2025

Publish Date: Apr 2
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A fix for a problem most developers gave up on

If you’ve been building websites for a while, you’ve run into this:

A headline wraps onto two lines — and the second line just looks… wrong.

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The break feels random. The layout is technically “fine,” but visually unbalanced.

You see it on marketing pages, in CMS-driven layouts, in blog teasers, everywhere.

And for years, we’ve worked around it:

  • Inserting tags manually
  • Tweaking max-width endlessly
  • Writing JavaScript to measure and reflow text
  • Or just accepting it and moving on

Then came: text-wrap: balance

A single line of CSS that quietly fixes a layout problem you’ve probably dealt with for years.

h1 { text-wrap: balance; }
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That’s it. One line.

And suddenly, the browser tries to balance the line breaks — distributing the words in a way that feels more even.

Instead of:

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You get:

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Same content.

Same layout.

But better rhythm, better readability — and zero effort.

Why it’s impressive

Because it solves a real, long-standing problem — without hacks, scripts, or extra markup.

Because it makes line breaking declarative.

Because we finally don’t need to fight it.

  • No trial-and-error
  • No JavaScript
  • No “Can we rewrite the headline?” conversations

Browser support

As of 2025 (caniuse):

✅ Chrome
✅ Safari
✅ Firefox
✅ Edge
✅ All major Chromium-based browsers

No fallbacks required.

If the browser supports it, it improves your layout.

If not, it does nothing — and that’s fine.

You can ship it today.

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