CSS widows Property

Description

The widows property specifies the minimum number of line boxes of a block container that must be left in a fragment after a break.

  • Initial value2
  • Applies toBlock level elements
  • InheritedYes
  • MediaVisual, Paged
  • Computed valueAs specified
  • AnimatableNo
  • CSS VersionCSS2, CSS3
  • JavaScript syntaxobject.style.widows

Syntax

Formal syntax: <integer>

widows: 3;

Values

  • <integer>Denotes the minimum amount of lines that can stay alone on the top of a new page. If the value is not positive, the declaration is invalid.

Example

.class
   {widows: 4;
}

Browser Support

noFirefox8+Explorer25+ChromenoSafari9+Opera

Last updated on 8th April 2014 By Rene Spronk

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