No responsiveness for text-justify?

According to the docs @ https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/utilities/text/#text-alignment, we can create breakpoints for aligning text i.e. text-left, text-sm-left, text-xl-center etc.

There is a text-justify class for all breakpoints, but there are no individual break points? Why hasn’t this been added with the other alignment classes?

For example, on mobiles a block of text looks better to be centred, but anything larger should be justified. This could easily be achieved by using text-center text-sm-justify, to work along the lines of all the other alignment classes.

[mdo]

Do you have a personal vendetta against me? I can’t believe what you’ve just said. That’s very much your opinion. Would you honestly remove something just because you don’t use it? That’s seriously incredibly unfair I’m absolutely shocked you would have a view like that. You don’t see the point? Seriously?

I’ve no idea why you’d think I have a vendetta against you.

Justified text has a place, but it’s very very infrequently used in apps and sites, things folks use Bootstrap to build. Most online publications don’t justify their text—they left align it and let it run ragged right. We’re not designing for print, or even multi column text, and we’ve also removed our print styles in v5. Varied spaces between words doesn’t help readers in most cases, and sure hyphenation can help, but we also don’t have utilities for that either.

As some of the comments here state, we don’t do everything we’re asked and we try to use sensible defaults while providing appropriate amounts of customization and utility. I don’t see any of this as unfair or shocking.

[ffoodd]

@leecollings FYI, justified text is a nightmare to read and is even a failure criterion in WCAG.

• F88: Failure of Success Criterion 1.4.8 due to using text that is justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins)
• Success criterion: G169: Aligning text on only one side
• And a least solution if you can’t remove justification by yourself: G172: Providing a mechanism to remove full justification of text

To explain this a bit more, this is not really an accessibility concern but a readability one: justifying text makes word-spacing almost random, which turns to be more difficult to read. It’s as simple as that.

It appears to be mentionned in WCAG because some users (especially dyslexics, but also low level reader for example) would be unable to read your content because of justification and not because of their trouble with reading.

FYI in our own fork (Boosted), we totally removed the .text-justify utility for those reasons — so I’d recommend Bootstrap does the same, obviously.