Hi.. First time user to this forum.. Usually I use orafans (oracle) and linuxquestions forums.. Anyway.. Startet a bit with
css now, and thought this might be the forum for it.
I have to make some reports from database text, so I have made up some blocks. Basically I have
[header text] - block 1
[information] - block 2
[text section nr.1 - 1 line to 60 lines long] - block 3
[table 1 - can be 1 to 120 rows long] - block 4
[text section nr.2 - 1 line to 60 lines long] - block 5
[table 2 - can be 1 to 120 rows long] - block 6
I do not know if the user will print the report on A1, A2, A3, A4 or A5 paper, or the american "letter" format for that matter.
Basically I want a page break so that the blocks do not split up. If all blocks can fit on a page, fine, let em do that, but I do not want the blocks split up i the middle. That makes em hard for the user to read since it is a lot of info, usually in tiny writting... If I used <p style = "page-break-after:always "> code I might have ended up with reports that where on one line each page... that is not desirable either, and waste paper.
So far I have fixed it by making a table for each block which has a fake empty rowspan="999" table column first in the tables making up the block. Using following code:
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<style>TR { page-break-inside: avoid; }
COLGROUP { page-break-inside: avoid; }
</style>
<body>
<table>
<colgroup> /* starting an empty fake very long column here */
<tr> /* just to prevent table from splitting over 2 pages */
<td rowspan="999">
</td></tr>
/* real data, making up a block */
<tr><td> data 1 (database data) </td></tr>
<tr><td> data 2 (database data) </td></tr>
etc etc
</colgroup>
</table>
/* second table - that might be split on 2 pages if the first table is long enough */
<table>
<colgroup> /* starting an empty fake very long column here */
<tr> /* just to prevent table from splitting over 2 pages */
<td rowspan="999">
</td></tr>
/* real data, making up a block */
<tr><td> data 1 (database data) </td></tr>
<tr><td> data 2 (database data) </td></tr>
etc etc
</colgroup>
</table>
This doesn't work with IE 6.0.28, nor netscape 7.1 but works with firefox 1.0 so I have hope it will work with the others in the not so far future.
So to the question: Is it a better way of doing this, that works today, and with most browsers. I don't really care if it is done using
css or
html, as long as it works (nor does my bosses). 95 % of my workplace use IE so a IE only solution would also be acceptable.
Guess I could go to the IT department and ask em to install firefox on all machines... but they probably never will...
Is it a no page break command for tables in
html maybe?
Hope you can help.
Css pages and page breaks
Aug 12th, 2005, 13:29
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