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React Native for web provides access to browser-only style properties. The following styles apply to any primitive that extends `TextViewStylePropTypes` like `<TextInput />`.

The API

textIndent

Sets the length of empty space (indentation) that is put before lines of text in a block.

Type: number | string

Conversion

// CSS
- text-indent: 30px;

// React Native
+ textIndent: 30,

textOverflow

Sets how hidden overflow content is signaled to users. It can be clipped, display an ellipsis ('…'), or display a custom string.

Type: string | 'each-line' | 'hanging' | Array<T>

Conversion

// CSS
- text-overflow: 5px hanging each-line;

// React Native
+ textOverflow: [5, "hanging", "each-line"],

textRendering

Provides information to the rendering engine about what to optimize for when rendering text. The browser makes trade-offs among speed, legibility, and geometric precision.

Type: 'auto' | 'geometricPrecision' | 'optimizeLegibility' | 'optimizeSpeed'

Conversion

// CSS
- text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;

// React Native
+ textRendering: "optimizeLegibility",

unicodeBidi

The unicodeBidi property, together with the direction property, determines how bidirectional text in a document is handled. For example, if a block of content contains both left-to-right and right-to-left text, the user-agent uses a complex Unicode algorithm to decide how to display the text. The unicodeBidi property overrides this algorithm and allows the developer to control the text embedding.

Type: 'normal','bidi-override','embed','isolate','isolate-override','plaintext'

Conversion

// CSS
- unicode-bidi: embed;

// React Native
+ unicodeBidi: "embed",

whiteSpace

Sets how white space inside an element is handled. Note: To make words break within themselves, use overflow-wrap, word-break, or hyphens instead.

Type: string

Conversion

// CSS
- white-space: word-break;

// React Native
+ whiteSpace: "word-break",

wordBreak

Sets whether line breaks appear wherever the text would otherwise overflow its content box.

Type: 'normal', 'break-all', 'break-word', 'keep-all'

Conversion

// CSS
- word-break: break-all;

// React Native
+ wordBreak: "break-all",

wordWrap

Applies to inline elements, setting whether the browser should insert line breaks within an otherwise unbreakable string to prevent text from overflowing its line box.

In CSS word-wrap is also known as overflow-wrap

Type: 'normal' | 'anywhere' | 'break-word'

Conversion

// CSS
- word-wrap: anywhere;

// React Native
+ wordWrap: "anywhere",

WebkitFontSmoothing

MozOsxFontSmoothing

Controls the application of anti-aliasing when fonts are rendered.

Type: string

Conversion

// CSS
- font-smooth: always;

// React Native
+ WebkitFontSmoothing: "always",
+ MozOsxFontSmoothing: "always",