Re: anti widow control?
by Cara Fealy <cara(at)achoate.com>
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Sat, 08 Sep 2001 12:06:22 -0500 |
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"Charles A. Upsdell" <chuck(at)upsdell.com> |
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hwg-style(at)hwg.org |
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*DOH*
I'm so used to using as a spacer element that I was trying to deny
that as valid code.
Thanks!
/cara
At 12:44 PM 9/8/01 -0400, Charles A. Upsdell wrote:
>If the words are to be separated by a space, why not just put a
>(non-breaking space) between the two words?
>
>There is also a non-breaking hyphen entity, but it is not well-supported.
>
>Other than this, there is no guaranteed way to keep words together. IE
>has (as I remember) a <nobr>...</nobr> tag to span text that must not be
>broken, but it is not supported by other browsers.
>
>- HTH, Chuck Upsdell
>
>At 11:01 AM 09/08/01, you wrote:
>>Greetings!
>>
>>I'm not really coming from a print world, but I'm in the process of
>>making a CSS text-only site as a personal learning experience. I can't
>>seem to find a tag to force two words to stay together.
>>
>>I set a class where the color is the same as the background and span
>>tagged a hyphen between the two words (which held together in mozilla),
>>but is there a "keep together" or widow control tag that I'm just not finding?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Cara
>>
>>
>>Cara L. Fealy
>>Master's Candidate, Graduate Research Assistant, ACTLab/Convergent Media
>>Department of Radio-Television-Film
>>University of Texas at Austin
>>
>>work: 512-471-6619
>>home: 512-453-2890
>>cell: 512-796-0394
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>>
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>-
>Chuck Upsdell, Website Design
>Email: chuck(at)upsdell.com
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