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Old 04-05-2010, 10:01 AM   #9
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
This is the widow and orphan mechanism. The default is to have both at 2, meaning that the renderer will adjust text on the page so that at least 2 lines of a paragraph are present at the top (widows) or bottom (orphans). If your paragraphs are appreciably longer than the amount of text that can fit on a page then it will cause exactly this problem. Since this is very rare in current fiction it's uncommon to see it.

To fix it, add
widows: 1;
orphans: 1;
to the body section of your css.
I prefer widows and orphans of 0. That way each full page of text can end on the same line.
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