compass-style.org/content/reference/compass/css3/hyphenation.haml
---
title: Compass Hyphenation
crumb: Hyphenation
framework: compass
stylesheet: compass/css3/_hyphenation.scss
meta_description: Mixin for breaking space and injecting hypens into overflowing text
layout: core
classnames:
- reference
- core
- css3
---
- render 'reference' do
:markdown
Provides mixins that pertain to CSS3 Word Breaking and Hyphenation.
See the CSS3 specification: [hyphens](http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#hyphens) and
[word-break](http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#word-break).
Firefox requires you to set the `lang` attribute in your markup.