However do note, above the fold is a relative term as it depends upon the resolution and the form factor of the device used to view the content. With regards to developers, while most developers I work with understand the above the fold term, if users or stakeholders dont understand, I explain it as the content that is visible when you first load a page and what you can see without scrolling. Most prominent and visible even when the newspaper is on stands. Space above the fold is also preferred by advertisers, since it is the That the article is one of the day's most important. Thus, an item that is 'above the fold' mayīe one that the editors feel will entice people to buy the paper.Īlternatively, it reflects a decision, on the part of the editors, PapersĪre often displayed to customers folded so that only the top half of Where an important news story or photograph is often located. To quote this Wikipedia articleĪbove the fold is the upper half of the front page of a newspaper The manual folds are lost when you abandon the file.

To increase the fold level of a fold for a range of lines, define a fold inside it that has the same lines. The level of a fold is only defined by its nesting. This can also be used by a script that parses text to find folds. And while her best friend can’t believe she would give up the opportunity to change her looks, Joyce’s sister can’t believe she would even consider the surgery.The history of the term 'Above the fold' comes from newspapers where the articles at the top were most visible when the newspaper was folded. Use commands to manually define the fold regions. Joyce is certain that this surgery could change her life, then she’ll look more like the typical white American beauty-the kind of girl her crush dates. When Joyce’s plastic-surgery-crazed aunt wins the lottery and decides to help everyone in the family improve their looks, Joyce is offered the chance to have eyelid surgery to give her monolids a fold. Joyce questions whether she’ll ever be pretty or special enough to stand out, especially when her older sister, Helen, outshines her in every way. On the last day of her junior year, Joyce Park finally musters up the courage to ask her crush to sign her yearbook, but he can’t remember her name. From master storyteller and Printz Award–winning author An Na comes a thoughtful novel about American beauty standards through the eyes of a Korean-American teenager who must decide how far she’s willing to go to be seen as beautiful.

The Fold by An Na