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Originally Posted by jackie_w
This is news to me, also! Can I confirm that you're just talking about widows/orphans with this statement? Or is it any CSS property in <body>?
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Yes, I'm just referring to orphans/widows. That said, I wouldn't be surprised that other inheritance issues may exist, but I have yet to encounter them.
Originally, I just used the earlier by others above stated <body> definition:
Code:
body {
. . .
orphans: 1;
widows: 1;
. . .
}
and assumed they worked in <p>, <div>, etc. and never checked further.
About a month ago, I had a text with mixed paragraphs comprising multiple lines and noticed they behaved funny at the kobo bottom page boundaries. That is, a paragraph sometimes was completely moved to the next page, leaving a kind of huge gap at the bottom of the current displayed page. This is odd, as the orphans/widows setting indicates at least 1 line of the next paragraph must be placed on the current page. I tried several things, dived again in the CSS documentation, but could not find a solution.
Reasoning did suggest that the orphans/widows settings were
not inherited by the paragraph <p> (and <div>), which I could not really believe. But hey, paper specs are not always (correctly) translated into code I knew from past experiences. So I did hard coded my CSS <p> & <div> settings to include orphans/widows to check this. And then it worked perfectly. QED
Well, for me that is. Some rumors in this thread still doubt this
So I suggest to try it yourself and see whether it works for you as YMMV. It might be that my kobo's are mondaymorning devices (latest FW)
Let us know so we may learn.
