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Old 12-07-2010, 11:59 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
There are two different meanings of "orphan":

* A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column.
* A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.

You are wanting to control the second meaning (words in a line) but it looks like the css orphan property controls the first meaning (lines of a paragraph at the bottom of the page). I don't know if there is a css property for minimum words in a line.

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I've never come across your second use of the word "orphan" before. It's always meant the first definition to me.
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