The short answer is a qualified 'no.' In reflowable EPUB, nearly everything depends on how the reader chooses to interpret and present the content. One reader might honor no-break settings, another might ignore them, and yet another might automatically try to keep headings with following text. There's usually little control over these details, and of course, less control over what EPUB reader a user might choose.
There are some methods that can help keep headings with text. One is to force a break before the heading, so that it will start a new page in most readers and thus inherently stay with following text.
Another is to use CSS styles to hard-set break statements. ID is pretty good about following Keep options and setting these without help, but adding them as explicit statements can help... again, if the reader honors them. A simple version would be to add —
h1.HEADING-1 {
page-break-before:auto;
page-break-after:avoid;
}
— to all headings and subheadings, backed with —
p.BODY-lede {
page-break-before:avoid;
page-break-after:auto;
}
— in a specific lede paragraph style intended to follow headings. But that's about the limit unless you put the heading and paragraph in an anchored text frame, and even that could be split over virtual pages.
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