orphans / widows

[m@mdessen.com]

Hello,

I have been trying to use orphan and widow control to prevent page
breaks immediately after h1 elements (on a CV). I have validated the
css and html, and used the following hoping this would work:

h1 {
orphans: 4;
widows: 1;
}

Because it's a resume, all the h1 elements are one line only, so I
assumed this would prevent any h1's from appearing as the last thing
on a page, with nothing following it below.

I was hoping this would work in Opera so I could print from that
browser, because it supposedly supports this feature. But it doesn't
seem to work. When I try to print from Opera, there is an h1 on the
third page that is at the very bottom, with nothing beneath it

The page is here: http://www.mdessen.com/mdcv.html

If anyone were to take the time to figure out what is wrong here, I
offer many kind thanks in advance.

michael dessen

[m@mdessen.com]

Re: orphans / widows

I just re-read the page-break specs and now see what you mean. THANK
YOU for the help!

michael dessen

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: orphans / widows

Scripsit m@mdessen.com:

I just re-read the page-break specs and now see what you mean.

Unfortunately, that's not the end of the story.

Although page-break-after: always and page-break-before: before are
well-supported, the same does not apply to settings that _prevent_ page
breaks or, to put it better, suggest that a page break should _not_ occur.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Lauri Raittila]

Re: orphans / widows

in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Scripsit m@mdessen.com:
>

I just re-read the page-break specs and now see what you mean.

>
Unfortunately, that's not the end of the story.
>
Although page-break-after: always and page-break-before: before are
well-supported, the same does not apply to settings that _prevent_ page
breaks or, to put it better, suggest that a page break should _not_ occur.

Actually, page-break-before: avoid is often more likely cause page-break
than prevent it on some browser I tested about 2-3 years ago.

--
Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr>