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[HTML or PHP] Inserting Page Break?

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Can you explain to me how this is even possible? You'd have to have different pages, it's not like word where you can just end a page and start the next. Printing out several breaks to push the content to the end of the "page" wouldn't work either, people use different resolutions, etc, and it would never work out. Perhaps I'm missing what you're looking for, but I don't think it's possible (unless of course, you literally use different pages).

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you could use some javascript trickery to detect the users resolution and create a table with rows of that particular height. then you just loop through printing out your data to different rows if a new page is required. this would work for on screen "pages" but if you want to print this to a printer then i have no idea.

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HellBender

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  remake said:
Can you explain to me how this is even possible? You'd have to have different pages, it's not like word where you can just end a page and start the next. Printing out several breaks to push the content to the end of the "page" wouldn't work either, people use different resolutions, etc, and it would never work out. Perhaps I'm missing what you're looking for, but I don't think it's possible (unless of course, you literally use different pages).

Er, yeah, I mean literally different pages. Sorry for not making that clear.

Its a report that will be printed out. I want each block to be at the top of each page. I believe all printers would print it almost the same.. I dont care how it looks on the monitor, I just want it to print on seperate pages.

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wesdeboer

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I think you're looking for something like this page:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html

ex.

<html>
<head>
<style>
@page { size 8.5in 11in; margin: 2cm }
div.page { page-break-after: always }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="page">Page 1 Here</div>
<div class="page">Page 2 Here</div>
</body>
</html>

try that in a browser, shows up right after each other, press print preview and they are on 2 separate pages.

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markwolfe Veteran

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Pretty interesting problem.

The standard Form Feed character for a printer is ASCII 12 (dec). Not sure if you can get a PHP page to start dumping raw codes like that to the printer (and, for modern printers that print graphical images, it won't work unless you are just dumping raw ASCII text to begin with (or use mostly text, and have only a few controlled images - force the form feed in the middle of the text any time, just not in the images).

[EDIT: The post above mine looks like your best solution!] :yes:

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HellBender

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i'm pretty sure thats impossible unless you make the php script make a word document and then download and print using word

Hmm, thats not a bad idea actually. Is that possible? If so, how? If I can do that, then I can get rid of the ugly URL, page numbers, time, and header that show up on the HTML-printed pages.

@wesdeboer: Thanks a lot, welcome to neowin! I'll definitely try that one out.

If someone could give more insight on the Word thing as well, it would be much appreciated.

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