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This page explains different methods for creating, controlling and preventing line breaks and word wraps in Wikipedia articles and pages. When a paragraph or line of text is too long to fit on one line, web browsers, like many other programs, automatically wrap the text to the next line.
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Form feed is a page-breaking ASCII control character. It directs the printer to eject the current page and to continue printing at the top of another. Often, it will also cause a carriage return. The form feed character code is defined as 12 (0xC in hexadecimal), and may be represented as Ctrl+L or ^L.
The very short final line of a paragraph composed of a single word (highlighted blue) is a runt. The first line of a paragraph beginning at the end of a page (highlighted green) is called an orphan (sometimes called a widow). The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan).
Word wrap is the additional feature of most text editors, word processors, and web browsers, of breaking lines between words rather than within words, where possible. Word wrap makes it unnecessary to hard-code newline delimiters within paragraphs, and allows the display of text to adapt flexibly and dynamically to displays of varying sizes.
When a section is a summary of another article that provides a full exposition of the section, a link to the other article should appear immediately under the section heading. You can use the {{ Main }} template to generate a "Main article" link, in Wikipedia's "hatnote" style.
To edit a page's settings, click to open the "Page options" menu, in the toolbar, and select the "Page settings" button. The "Page settings" button opens a dialog that shows several options. You can make a page a redirect to another page by checking the "Redirect this page to" checkbox, and then typing the name of the page to which you want to ...