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I'm currently designing a series of medical reports that are generated out of a database. All well and good. The amount of data displayed depends on the number of visits the patients has made, and so is variable in length.

Currently the reports (generated out of access currently) comprise 3 pages, with specific types of data on each one. For the purposes of the online version, the report is generated as a single page of linear data that then needs to be printed onto 3 pages.

THE QUESTION IS: How the pie can I do page breaks so that 'page 1' data only prints on page 1, and so on?

I'm not sure if you can, with HTML.

Have you thought about converting it to PDF? You have much more control over how it looks, and can specify page breaks and margins and stuff.

That's a good point, is htmldoc still free?

I'd go with pdfs too. I use fpdf.

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page-break-after

[edit]And a how-to: http://davidwalsh.name/advanced-css-pri ... age-breaks

http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutor ... reak.shtml

I've used this technique at work quite a bit.

mmm, very good, this may well do the job. Thanks chaps

Also: thanks Grim.

Grim... beat me to it.

That's about all the control you can get though, local preferences force the printer to put the web address at the top and page numbers at the bottom which may messy up your printed reports a bit. If people don't want to see those they have to change that themselves.

Print CSS is largely broken and unsupported, although I've had some luck with page-break, etc. As others have said, PDF is your best bet.

Yeah, best solution. It'll make the reports nice and portable and the anti-aliasing looks ever so pretty

Starting with IE6 Microsoft provide a TERRIFYINGLY COMPLICATED method of controlling many, many aspects of print preview/generation from C++, including full-page templating, allowing variable content length page pre-counting (so you can have "page X of Y" bits) and other stuff.

I wouldn't recommend you look at that. At all.