Controlling Widows and Orphans
CSS offers a number of other features that help control how Web pages are printed. Unfortunately, only widows and orphans are supported, and only by Opera. I’ll give you a quick synopsis, nonetheless.
To control widows and orphans:
- If desired, in the style rule, type orphans: n;, where n is the minimum number of lines that should appear at the bottom of a page.
- If desired, in the style rule, type widows: n;, where n is the minimum number of lines in the element that should appear at the top of a page.
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Only Opera supports the orphans and widows properties.
It’s a shame that these features are not better supported by other browsers. However, things move so quickly that perhaps by the time you read this, things ...
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