- From: Tim Bagot <timothy.bagot@keble.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:19:52 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > >I am working in an all Netscape shop and have developed a report using > >HTML. The users love the report - but want it to print out better than it > >currently does. I need to be able to insert a page break. > > > >I have read the following specification: > > http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-print-970626 > > > >This specification states that Cascading Style Sheets support a page break > >when printing. I have been told that Netscape 4.0 supports Cascading Style > >Sheets but... when I tried to implement the page break, as described in the > >specification, it did not work. > > > >Is it possible to insert a page-break (for printing purposes) using any > >version of Netscape? Do you have any suggestions/help?? > > Just so you know, page-breaking is now part of the CSS2 specification > (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-CSS2/), is found in the section on paged media, > and may well have changed somewhat from it original conception. So far as > I am aware-- although I have not done rigorous testing of this, so > counter-examples are not only possible, but welcome-- page-breaking is not > supported in any major Web browser. However, Netscape doesn't even support HTML 4.0 yet, let alone CSS2. To be fair, CSS2 is still only a working draft. I think lack of support at this stage is in many ways a good thing: there have been problems in the past with "standards" being implemented before they were finalised. Tim Bagot
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