Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of erot
erot

asked on

Page break, but only on printed docs??

Is it possible to tell where in a web-page it should
be a page-break, bun only only when the client print it?
If it is....which Tag or something else do the trick?

Avatar of rafistern
rafistern

You can do this in IE4. This is what my help file says about it:

These Style Sheet printing extensions are aimed at documents that will use the <STYLE MEDIA="print"...> style sheet setting, specifying the style sheet as being suitable for printed documents. Note that the printing extensions are only a recent addition to Style Sheets and are claimed to be supported by Internet Explorer 4.0.

page-break-after
Value: auto | always | left | right
Initial: auto
Applies to: block-level elements outside of tables
Inherited: no
Percentage values: N/A

The values are:

auto
do a page break after the element only if necessary (e.g. if there is no remaining space on the current page)
always
always do a page break after the element
left
do one or two page breaks after the element until a blank left page is reached
right
do one or two page breaks after the element until a blank right page is reached
As an example, a hard page break may be inserted in the document with the BR tag as follows:

<STYLE>
BR.page { page-break-after: always }
</STYLE>
.
<BR CLASS=page>
.
If there are conflicts between this property and the 'page-break-before' value on the previous element (as formatted on the canvas), the value that results in the largest number of page breaks will be used.

Note: a way to suppress page breaks after an element is currently under discussion by the W3C, but the syntax is not yet defined.

page-break-before
Value: auto | always | left | right
Initial: auto
Applies to: block-level elements outside of tables
Inherited: no
Percentage values: N/A

The values are:

auto
do a page break before the element only if necessary (e.g. if there is no remaining space on the current page)
always
always do a page break before the element
left
do one or two page breaks before the element until a blank left page is reached
right
do one or two page breaks before the element until a blank right page is reached
As an example, a page break may be inserted in the document before all H1 elements:

<STYLE>
H1 { page-break-before: always }
</STYLE>
.
<H1 CLASS=chapter>
.
If there are conflicts between this property and the 'page-break-after' value on the next element (as formatted on the canvas), the value that results in the largest number of page breaks will be used.



Try and see if it works.
I've answered this question before (look for Page Break in MSIE 4.0 - 11/04/98).  And no BR does not support that style sheet property.

You can use P tag instead.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of jhurst
jhurst

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial