May 2003
Intermediate to advanced
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This property affects the position of page breaks when the user prints the page from his or her browser. With this property, you can specify the minimum number of lines that must remain in a block following a page break.
For example, if a paragraph element had six lines and the page size called for a page break to occur after the fourth line, then an orphans setting of 3 would force the page break to occur before the paragraph so that the last 3 lines could appear on the same page.
Inherited: Yes
See also: Section B.72orphans
A positive integer.
Initial value: 2
CSS Version: 2
This property is supported by Mozilla browsers (including Netscape 6 or later), Opera 7, and Internet Explorer 5 ...
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