print friendly output

doyle9732 · Jun 30, 2004

I have a report generated that outputs budget data every month, grouped by departments. Every month, the report gets bigger and will print on numerous pages. Does anyone know an easy way to make it a little more print friendly? I have the output in a table with borders, but it looks very messy where it cuts off (ie. unfinished borders). It would be nice to just have a 'finished' look - it would be over-the-top amazing if I could capture the department name and have ...continued Human Resources....or whatever department is currently displaying. And break for a new page for every department (4 different ones)

thanks!
Stephanie

NorthStarDA · Jun 30, 2004

i know you can use css to put in manual page breaks, but i also like your idea of using (continued..) on Next pages, im very interested in knowing if this can be done as well.

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webmigit · Jun 30, 2004

It seems changing your table tag to something llke..

Code:

<table...style="page-break-before: always">

Would create the effect you want..

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TruthInSatire · Jul 1, 2004

Here's what w3c has to say about it.

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

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NorthStarDA · Jul 1, 2004

does anyone know a method for doing doyle9732's suggestion about custom table headers for groups/pages that extend across multiple pages like (HR ...continued)?

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