Help formatting WEb pages for print

[Justin]

I have a web application that creates legal documents. When printed it is about 65 pages. The clients want to have each page numbered. Aside from hard coding the page numbre 65 times(yeah right!) I need away to increment the page numbers at the bottom of each page.

I can use <tfoot> to place the numbers on each page but I can;t get them to increment. Can someone help, PLEASE!

Thanks,
Justin

[Webforumz Staff]

I'm pretty sure you can't do this with code.

If using IE your client would need to go to: File>Page Setup...
Then for Footer put in something like "Page &p of &P", or just "&p"

A list of the codes for use in the header and footer can be found at:
http://www.pcabcs.com/realtour/page_setup_ie.htm

[Justin]

Thanks,

I was afraid of that! I found an article that said that about 30 minutes ago ... sigh!

Have to do something else

[Webforumz Staff]

Depending on your hosting you might be able to generate a PDF file of the document that includes page numbers.

[Rob]

Cant you use server side code to generate the printable version??

The server side code could place page numbers on there (ok, they'll be slightly above the footer, but does that matter)

[D3mon]

CSS2 has the functionality to do this I believe, but browser support is very limited.

[David]

You can force page breaks in CSS, from my experience it's not perfect though

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css_print.html
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pageba.asp