Calculate page break position

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

Assuming there's reliable code to force a page break for printing purposes, how do you calculate the position of the code to force the break?

Have a client who would like database reports to be available as HTML but also printable in a structured way.

Page lengths would either Letter or A4.

TIA

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Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[feherke]

Hi

If that "structured way" means that those database reports are huge tables and the goal is to repeat the table headers and footers on each page, then use [tt]thead[/tt], [tt]tfoot[/tt] and [tt]tbody[/tt] and Mozillas ( FireFox, SeaMonkey, Epiphany, Galeon ) will repeat the table headers and footers on each page.


Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Feherke

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately the data output may not be in table format.

Having said that, if that's a way to control the page breaks, it might be possible to 'format' the output into table format.

What of other browsers?

FAQ184-2483​

Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[feherke]

Hi

What of other browsers?

Presto ( Opera ), KHTML ( Konqueror ), WebKit ( Safari, Chorme, Midori, Arora ) seems that not supports it the sam way.

Maybe you are approaching the problem the wrong way. As I understand, you want to predict where will be the page breaks. Instead you should just specify where page breaks may/must be, then let the browser to break up the document based on the rendering and what you specified. See the [tt]page-break-before[/tt], [tt]page-break-after[/tt] and [tt]page-break-inside[/tt] properties in CSS 2.1 | Paged media | Page breaks.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

As I understand, you want to predict where will be the page breaks

Poor communication on my part - I would like to be able to specify where the page breaks are going to be.

What browsers would respond to the CSS option?

FAQ184-2483​

Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[feherke]

Hi

Sorry, I also communicate poorly : the [tt]page-break-*[/tt] properties were just hints. All I know about them is what I read on W3C years ago. :-(

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/