Question

I have a header which I constructed like this:

<header class="top">
  <a href="">
    <span class="right">Stichting Delftsche Opera Compagnie presenteert</span>
    <h1 class="right">Carmen</h1>
    <h2 class="right">Een opera door Krashna Musika en de TU Delft</h2>
  </a>
</header>

This should look like this, as someone made this in Adobe Illustrator

Then I applied some css and got to this (in the original there is a Dutch spelling mistake, this one is corrected, the scale is not completely equal either):

The rules:

.top {
    display: block;
    width: 800px;
    float: right;
}

.top a {
    background-image: url('../img/logo.jpg');
    background-size: 150px 150px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;

    padding-left: 150px;
    height: 175px;

    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.top .right {
    text-align: justify;
    width: 650px;
}

.top span, .top h2 {
    color: #E02C33;
    font-size: 1.8em;
}
.top h1 {
    color: #B02025;
    font-size: 4.7em;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

I have two issues here:

1. How can I justify both the <span> and <h2> to their equal lengths (my justify is not working as expected)
2. How can I constraint “CARMEN” such the width and height are pre defined, the spacing between characters is rendered by the browser

Answer 1

The problem with justify is that the last line is usually no justified, because the letter spacing would be too long.

If you can use CSS3, there are new attributes, which make this possible:
http://www.css3.com/css-text-justify/

If the header always stays the same, you can also adjust the font-size and letter-spacing attributes, until it fits.