- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:44:55 +1200
- To: andy <phil.andy.graves@gmail.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
andy wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been covered before, but why doesn't any HTML > spec have anything about page breaks written in it? Sometimes I just > need a hard break between specific paragraphs that I write, and all > flavors of HTML, including XHTML, don't include it. Sure I can just > create a whole new page, but sometimes that's just not as desirable, > or even easy (do you know exactly when your document is going to break > on a page printout, and when Firefox is going to split an image in > half?) > > I think this would handle one of the two major issues as to why I'd > rather get the sometimes-available pdf version of a document over it's > HTML sibling. The only other issue is inline media, and I doubt that > will ever be properly handled in a single ml type file. > > In conclusion, I think a page break tag in some later version of XHTML > would add more than it would take away. You're looking for the CSS page-break-* declarations. What you suggest is not semantic/structural, it is presentational, and therefore belongs in CSS. Jasper
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