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[arlen]

I'm trying to put together some easily printable reference sheets as a visitor resource on my site. I would like to compose them as printed pages, but don't want to force the visitor to have to hit next / print / next …

This is probably a dumb question, but is there any device in html that will force a page break?

I would imagine composing "pages" in independent & undersized tables might work in some instances, but with the variations in printers & browsers print margins I've run across. I don't think you could do pull it off without a page break command being native html code.

I'm probably better off with acrobat for the things I am considering, though I personally get annoyed with .pdf files because of the reader & document load times, and it's urge to update itself causing delays.

Edited by arlen, 10 January 2005 - 08:17 PM.

[chrishirst]

there is page-break-before & page-break-after in the CSS2 specs. BUT it only sort of works in IE and the only supported attribute is always.

It really can only be safely used on relative or static positioned, non-floated elements. Should be ok it you set up a seperate style sheet for printing. because floats don't convert to printing very well

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