For those that don’t have a background in typesetting a widow is a single word which is placed on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
When dealing with dynamic content in websites it is sometimes hard to avoid widows appearing in page text. It is considered, by traditional typesetting rules, bad layout when this happens. A simple fix to dynamically check a pages’ content and automatically supress white space between the last two words in every paragraph with a or non-breaking space is to use a jQuery plugin called jQWidon’t. It does exactly what it says on the tin and is easy to implement. Fix your page text today with this great little plugin! Widows and their younger counterpart, Orphans are explained in more detail in Wikipedia.
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