widowtamer.js
The widow tamer was created to provide you with more control over the layout of your content across many devices.
It is a non jquery based javascript plugin that will automatically fix typographic widows on your web pages. It is designed to work with responsive sites, fixing widows as it finds them on resize or orientation change.
What is a Widow?
If you don’t know what they are don’t be alarmed, for a few months I thought it was a Window Tamer.
Widows are left over characters at the end of a paragraph. If the last line of a paragraph contains less than 14 characters (for example), it is said to have a widow. Widows are disruptive to both text layouts and reading experiences. Therefore, we must tame them.
Here’s the very first introduction from the creator:
Meet “The Widow Tamer”: A script for auto-fixing type widows on your site.github.com/nathanford/wid…See it in action on artequalswork.com
— Nathan C. Ford (@nathan_ford) June 22, 2012
Code Example
Due to the nature of this plugin it will activate only when required, so you may need to resize this page to see the effects in the code pen below, or open it up and view it on it’s own.
