When you’re a great standard individual like me, you’ve long gone to conflict with typographic widows and orphans repeatedly over your years as a developer, making an attempt to verify they don’t occur and wreck someone’s day. You realize what I imply, a headline with one foolish little phrase that has wrapped down onto its personal line. If simplest it is advisable to upload a few comfortable returns in there to forestall it. You’ll be able to, after all, however you realize higher. A comfortable go back would possibly repair an issue at one explicit container width, that destroy reasons an much more awkward downside at every other container width.

One method this is on occasion hired is to insert a   (non-breaking house) between the final two phrases (perhaps even 3?) of a headline (or paragraphs, in case you’re nasty).

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None folks can also be afflicted to hand-code that if we’re in control of the HTML of headlines continuously. I wrote my very own PHP to separate headlines via phrase and manually insert the non-breaking house on CSS-Tips a decade or extra in the past. It may be achieved in client-side JavaScript too, naturally, however no one needs to peer that reflow.

In the end, alongside comes the internet platform with one thing that appears like an answer:

h1, h2, h3 {
  text-wrap: stability;
}

Tyler Sticka has an editorial about this new CSS and gives this transparent comparability:

That “balanced” headline great, normally a a lot more gratifying end result for multi-line headlines.

However particularly, what is occurring right here isn’t explicitly orphan-fighting. Richard Rutter makes this transparent in an editorial of his personal:

What this isn’t is regulate over widows and orphans. My earlier examples display how the textual content balancing set of rules in Chrome Canary does certainly save you a widow (the one phrase dropped down), and that’s a extremely most likely consequence. However you need to needless to say the balancing activity shortens the strains, so this isn’t an way you possibly can take to forestall widows on the finish of paragraphs. In reality Canary limits balancing to 4 strains.

So it works for heading off orphans/widows, however virtually as an aspect impact of the balancing. In a follow-up article, Richard shines a gentle on what generally is a long run resolution:

Little by little, the CSSWG turns out to were converging on a possible resolution. Within the present draft of the CSS Textual content Module Degree 4, there may be point out of Final Line Minimal Period. …

Amelia Bellamy-Royds took the Final Line Minimal Period thought and proposed an answer with a brand new min-last-line belongings. Her proposed belongings would specify a minimal period for the overall line, and a minimal period for the penultimate line if you’d dropped a phrase or extra down to deal with the fast ultimate line.

Send it. Particularly if it really works on paragraphs in multi-col.

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Long run CSS: Anchor Positioning via Roman Komarov.

We simplest have essentially the most rudimentary strategy to “connecting” the placement of 2 components in CSS lately. Take a component that has non-static positioning, and you’ll be able to completely place a component inside that context. That’s about it. Kinda unhappy while you take into consideration it — particularly because it comes up fairly steadily. Most commonly within the context of tooltips and context menus, the place you wish to have a component (of arbitrary DOM place) to be located proper subsequent to the part that wishes the tooltip or context menu.

This positioning problem is most often achieved with JavaScript (the cow paths were laid), by the use of getBoundingClientRect and doing more than a few geometric math to verify the part doesn’t wank off the brink of the browser or in anyway turn into “information loss” as we love to mention in CSS. Tougher that it kind of feels. Letting CSS do it kind of feels awfully great.

CSS has a tendency to not focal point answers on one actual want even though, who prefer as an alternative to unravel the issue conceptually with primitives that would possibly remedy quite a lot of use circumstances. That is the place Roman will get artful with issues and makes examples like this connecting components with pointing arrows (involving SVG):

But additionally some cool demos with a moderately simpler twist, like shifting spotlight menus:

Jhey Tompkins’ article in this, Tether components to one another with CSS anchor positioning, covers issues from first ideas and is almost certainly a greater reference for the syntax. However Jhey being Jhey, there are some bizarre and artful demos as neatly, like this emoji finger shape:

It’s a Pen, naturally.

There’s a <meter> part in HTML, and Dana Byerly does a perfect activity of showcasing it. It’s a herbal are compatible for stuff like “You’ve uploaded 47 of your most 100 information” in a visually extra comprehensible approach. There may be some accessibilty stuff to get proper even though, together with the use of “fallback textual content” (the textual content inside the part) which is utilized by some display screen readers and can definitely be helpful context. Unfastened fundamental styling is good:

Are living checks as a Pen, naturally.

I just like the time period “CSS micro-framework” as coined right here via Blake Watson.

• Might come with categories for construction grids, parts, and so on. Generally restricted, even though, on account of the following rule.
• Beneath 10kb minified and gzipped. I think like you’ll be able to’t declare “micro” or “light-weight” past 10kb.
• JavaScript is non-compulsory and isn’t equipped via the framework.

Examples:

They aren’t only a reset and so they aren’t… Bootstrap. They aren’t essentially “classless” both, which is an entire different class of framework that simplest types issues in accordance with HTML selectors.

After which, every other imaginable finishing:

As we cross deeper down the trail of minimum CSS starters we finally end up on the logical conclusion—you could no longer desire a framework in any respect.