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Old 07-14-2014, 12:49 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
I don't think that is exactly what widows:2;orphans:2; means.

widows:2; means that at least two lines of the paragraph remain at the top of a page.
orphans:2 means that at least two lines of the paragraph remain at the bottom.

So if a paragraph has five lines, then widows:2;orphans:2; allows it to be split either as 2+3, 3+2. Your pictures show it being split as 2+3, which is correct.
Well, with that interpretation, the long paragraph bug is not a bug also...

(Hey, you had room for the paragraph to start, but, what the hell, I prefer starting it in the next page!!! Widows & orphans are fully respected, so no bug at all).

Maybe you are right, but I don't feel that is the spirit of that CSS formatting setting. Those widows and orphans are here in order to help the rendering looking prettier, and I don't think those huge unnecessary blank spaces are a pretty thing...

So I suppose the correct behaviour is my strict one... Nevertheless I'm no HTML/CSS expert at all, so you could be fully right and I fully wrong, even being a complete absurd standard in that case.
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