Re: Initial values for widows and orphans

On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:03 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/2012 10:19 AM, Brad Kemper wrote:
>> 
>> Can you explain what breaks? Does it screw up the printing somehow?
>> I don't have access to an Opera browser at the moment.
> 
> It would affect pages that use inline-block to do coarse layout. This
> will eventually be solved by people switching to flexbox and grid, etc.
> But for now, it would mean that such layouts would print with some
> unnecessary gapping as the UA tries to keep at least two "rows" together
> when possible.
> 
> ~fantasai

Ah, I see. It seems like the lines that are taller than page area divided by the orphan/widow value should be ignored for those properties. 

Received on Friday, 14 December 2012 23:18:41 UTC