Page-breaks not working

aharrisreid · Dec 28, 2002

I have a web page displaying the contents of a text file containing page-break characters (ASCII value 12). When I send the page to a printer (via Ctrl-p), the page is printed continuously, and the breaks are ignored. Is there any way (perhaps replacing the page-break characters with HTML tags or special characters) that I can print the page with the page-breaks retained?

Any help would be appreciated.

Alan

JillC · Dec 31, 2002

Hi aharrisreid,

You can do this with CSS2 but it doesn't work for Netscape (might for version 7).
page-break-after:always
or page-break-before:always

Remove pagebreaks: page-break-after:auto or page-break-before:auto

Eg:
<STYLE>
H1 {page-break-before:always}
</STYLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>The heading</H1>

H1 is used as an example - can use any tag. Hope that helps.

aharrisreid · Jan 1, 2003

Jillc,

>>You can do this with CSS2 but it doesn't work for Netscape (might for version 7).
page-break-after:always
or page-break-before:always<<

That does the trick, many thanks.

Alan

KeithMacDonald · Feb 7, 2003

I tested Netscape 7.01 with the page-break-after command and it worked fine on my test page. Unfortunately when I tried it where I needed it (inside a datagrid template) it wouldn't work. Funny, you would think printing each item of a datagrid on a separate page would be a priority place for this command to work.

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Page-breaks not working

aharrisreid

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