[Web4lib] Print style sheet question

[Jonathan Gorman]

--- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:08:45 -0400
>From: "Drew, Bill" <drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU>  
>Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Print style sheet question  
>To: "Amy Ostrom" <amostrom at gmail.com>
>Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
>
>Your recommendation did away with the long div problem I was seeing in
>Firefox.  I also revalidated the entire page and fixed some minor
>errors.  Still working on the page breaks showing up in the middle of
>images.


It's not widely supported, but there are some css2 page breaks  controls (see the specs at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html#page-breaks).  You want something like page-break-inside:avoid.

Of course, like I said, I'm not sure what browsers implement this.  (Probably safe to bet neither IE 6 or IE 7, Firefox is questionable, just maybe Opera).  I haven't experimented much, but this could at least help some of the people with this issue.

Ideally the browser should have the brains to avoid doing this at all possible. Of course, I'm amazed at how bad browser printing has been for so long.



Jon Gorman
-------------------------------

Research Information Specialist
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
316 Main Library - MC522
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801