Avoid widows using a template filter

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from django.template import Library, Node

register = Library()

def widont(value):
    bits = value.rsplit(' ', 1)
    try:
        widowless = bits[0] + " " + bits[1]
        return widowless
    except:
        return value

register.filter(widont)

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Comments

obeattie (on February 27, 2007):

Thanks for this - looks like this could prove very useful!

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paching (on March 1, 2007):

Nice little trick I didn't know about! Just a couple notes;

If there happens to be an HTML tag such as a link on the last word, this would break it. However for simple headers, I suppose this isn't a problem. In my own code I'm putting this inside a text conversion function where I'm already keeping track of tags, anyway :)

Also, it could be implemented as a simple one-liner:

return ' '.join(value.rsplit(' ', 1))

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obeattie (on March 11, 2007):

Just one little gotcha...

The template should ensure that it is using a string... so Line 6 should read:

bits = str(value).rsplit(' ', 1)

Therefore, if an object which is not a string is passed to it, it's string method will be called to ensure that the filter will work as intended.

Otherwise, this is brilliant!

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Amr Mostafa (on April 22, 2007):

Nice one! Thanks

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SmileyChris (on July 25, 2007):

I've put a more advanced version of this at snippet 340

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RobertPattinson (on August 6, 2012):

If there happens to be an HTML tag such as a link on the last word, this would break it. However for simple headers, I suppose this isn't a problem. In my own code I'm putting this inside a text conversion function where I'm already keeping track of tags, anyway :)
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