Re: Initial values for widows and orphans

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:08:20 -0800 Message-ID: <50C67974.7080508@inkedblade.net> To: www-style@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 25 March 2022 10:08:24 UTC

On 12/10/2012 03:57 PM, Dean Jackson wrote:
>
> Sorry for talking to myself, but I'm not convinced 1 is any better than auto. Despite my protestations below, it could be that we *do* want to respect widows and orphans at some time in the future, in some situations. I like that 'auto' has the implication that the user-agent will decide.

I don't see that changing the spec here is particularly useful or necessary.
Just put

html {
   widows: 1;
   orphans: 1;
}

in the UA style sheet.

~fantasai