CSS orphans Property
Description
The orphans property refers to the minimum number of lines in a block container that must be left at the bottom of the page. This property is normally used to control how page breaks occur.
- Initial value
- 2
- Applies to
- Block level elements
- Inherited
- Yes
- Media
- Visual, Paged
- Computed value
- As specified
- Animatable
- No
- CSS Version
- CSS2, CSS3
- JavaScript syntax
- object.style.orphans
Syntax
Formal syntax: <integer> orphans: 4;
Values
- <integer>Only positive values are allowed.
Example
.class
{orphans: 3;
}Browser Support
| Desktop | |||||
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| 8 | 12 | 25 | X | 9.2 | 1.3 |
| Tablets / Mobile | |||||
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| ≤37 | 25 | X | X | 1 | X |