Widows on headings

[MaggieCabrera]

Bea mentioned that we should avoid having widows on prominent headings on the site such as the home page:

This will only happen in English so my suggestion here is to use <br> in these cases to break the line where we want to and add a comment to the translators so they can decide if they want to remove that line break or not for their languages.

[luminuu]

This can very much happen in German and I guess in many other languages too and I don't see a benefit of adding extra HTML for optical reasons. And regular users will certainly not care about this. Which doesn't mean that this is a valid concern, it's just not practical for a wide range of users.

[sabernhardt]

WordPress user "superpoincare" suggested using text-wrap: balance in Core themes. Would it be worth the performance cost and other considerations to add it to this theme's headings for any browser that supports the property?

[MaggieCabrera]

This can very much happen in German and I guess in many other languages too and I don't see a benefit of adding extra HTML for optical reasons. And regular users will certainly not care about this. Which doesn't mean that this is a valid concern, it's just not practical for a wide range of users.

It's design reasons (one which is widely accepted to be good practice), rather than optical and it doesn't cost us anything to do to make the theme look better, in particular when translators have an easy mechanism to ignore the fix just by deleting the tag if we document it properly.

I like the idea of the CSS rule but I've heard that text-wrap: pretty; is better for this particular problem specifically. I would like to see this in core rather than the theme and I believe it's something that is being considered.