Page break before - Page Break After - Pulls the page down when printing - Why?

Thanks for the reply Sean! Greatly appreciated!

Here are the CSS classes I've created and tried testing with:

   div.overhead   {
                         page-break-before: auto;
                         page-break-after: auto;
                         }

   pre.pagebreak {
                         page-break-inside: avoid;
                         }

I've tried all permutations of these classes within an ASP file, especially around a simple HTML table as shown below, (not built using CSS) to make sure it didn't break over 2 pages because of the content.

Here's an example of the type of simple table I'm talking about. I didn't insert my full page code content as it's quite lengthy. Keep in mind that the ASP code you see within the brackets are calling content from a database. If you want to test at your end, you'll have to replace the ASP code with plain text. The table example:

<table width="80%" class="tableborder" cellpadding="5" align="center">
   <tr>
      <td><%XLAT "f20_16_a_044"%>
      <ol>
         <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_045"%><br><span class="en"><%XLAT "f20_16_a_046"%></span><br><br>
            <ul>
               <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_047"%><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_048"%>&nbsp;<%XLAT "f20_16_a_049"%><br><br></li>
               <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_050"%><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_048"%>&nbsp;<%XLAT "f20_16_a_051"%><br><br></li>
               <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_052"%><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_048"%>&nbsp;<%XLAT "f20_16_a_053"%><br><br></li>
               <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_054"%><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_048"%>&nbsp;<%XLAT "f20_16_a_055"%><br><br></li>
              </ul>
           </li>
           <li><%XLAT "f20_16_a_056"%><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_057"%><br><br><%XLAT "f20_16_a_048"%>&nbsp;<%XLAT "f20_16_a_058"%></li>
        </ol></td>
   </tr>
</table>

It's as simple as that, and when I insert my CSS attributes either using the div tag or the pre tag for print formatting purposes, it results in what I explained in my original post.

Thanks again for your help!

Just a minor note, but as far as I know, there isn't a single browser that supports the page-break-inside property yet.

Hi seanpowell

Thank you for your help so far. I will have to pick this up on Tuesday next week.

So I will get back to this thread then.

I hope you don't mind.

Thank you!

seanpowell

In the print output of what you are explaining the content of the first page still gets pulled down to the bottom of the page when the table is moved to the second page.

Is there a setting to keep the content of the first page aligned to the top of the page?

PS: please keep in mind that we are using PDFs as our print output.

thanks!

>>Is there a setting to keep the content of the first page aligned to the top of the page?
No - but it depends on your layout. As noted, the code you posted is not enough for me to tell where you're going wrong, so I can't really be of much help unless I see it all. If you try the example I posted, the behaviour you're noticing should not be evident...

Sean

Thank you seanpowell

You were correct. I made a mistake when trying your example.

vanauden,

Did you ever find a fix for the page one problem - not aligning at the top of the page?  I am having the same problem and it doesn't seem as though you received an answer or fix?

Shannon