Text justification

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  panvalkarpramod · Member · May 23, 2020 at 11:37 am

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  In the new editor, I used ‘Text Justify’ option but it did not work. The text remained left-justified. Am I making some error?

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  raf584 · Member · May 25, 2020 at 11:15 am

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  same problem, in the new editor the Justify instrument doesn’t work neither in post nor in pages editing.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · May 26, 2020 at 7:09 am

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  Hi,

  Have you selected all the text before pressing the “Justify” button?

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  slantedplanet · Member · May 26, 2020 at 3:27 pm

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  Hello All!

  This is how text justification works and does not work for me, testing with the TwentyTwenty theme on a free site.

  In the editor, text never displays as justified. If I use Preview or view the test post after updating, then justified text displays as justified. If I choose Strikethrough–another formatting option from the same menu–the formatting effect shows immediately in the editor.

  I recognize that the editor is not genuine WYSIWG, but the inconsistency in this use case does lead to confusion. Is it a bug or a limitation of the editor?

  Staff, feel welcome to look at my private test post:
  https://twenty205937380.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/original-test-post-1/

  I tested with the current production mac version (76.0.1) of Firefox.

  @raf584 and @panvalkarpramod, can you try to reproduce my test outcome and post again with your findings?

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  raf584 · Member · May 29, 2020 at 2:55 pm

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  I solved the mystery, it’s the browser, Justify option works under Chrome, not under Firefox. There should be some settings that need to be changed in Firefox but I couldn’t imagine which one.

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  supernovia · Staff · May 29, 2020 at 7:24 pm

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  I’m actually seeing the issue on Chrome as well as Firefox. I’ve filed a bug report here:
  https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/42813

  For now, do go ahead and justify your text if you’d like; when you view the site it should work. If it does not, let us know.