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Created November 3, 2015 19:59
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Removes orphans, so that a single word is never by itself on a line.
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Orphan Removal
$("h2 a").each(function() {
var wordArray = $(this).text().split(" ");
if (wordArray.length > 1) {
wordArray[wordArray.length-2] += " " + wordArray[wordArray.length-1];
wordArray.pop();
$(this).html(wordArray.join(" "));
}
});
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Original snippet found on CSS Tricks:
https://css-tricks.com/preventing-widows-in-post-titles/

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