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Coffeescript to prevent widows in title elements, can cope with nested HTML such as a or span elements
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prevent_widows.coffee
jQuery.fn.justtext = ->
$(this).clone().children().remove().end().text()
prevent_widows = () ->
$("h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6").each (i, e) =>
t = $.trim($(e).justtext()).replace(/\s([^\s]*)$/,'\xa0'+'$1')
cache = $(e).children()
$(e).text(t).append cache
$(e).find('*').each (i, e) =>
t = $.trim($(e).justtext()).replace(/\s([^\s]*)$/,'\xa0'+'$1')
cache = $(e).children()
$(e).text(t).append cache
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