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# lineBreakStrategy

The strategies that the text system may use to break lines while laying out the paragraph.

```
var lineBreakStrategy: NSParagraphStyle.LineBreakStrategy { get set }
```

## Discussion

Line-break strategies are collections of options the system uses to determine where to break lines in a paragraph. This is different from [`lineBreakMode`](/documentation/AppKit/NSParagraphStyle/lineBreakMode), which controls how to lay out lines of text that don’t fit in a container. The system ignores this property if the paragraph style’s [`lineBreakMode`](/documentation/AppKit/NSParagraphStyle/lineBreakMode) property specifies a mode that doesn’t support multiple lines, such as [`NSLineBreakMode.byClipping`](/documentation/AppKit/NSLineBreakMode/byClipping).

The default value is [`NSLineBreakStrategyNone`](/documentation/AppKit/NSLineBreakStrategy/NSLineBreakStrategyNone).

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