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’always’, ’left’, and ’right’ take precedence over ’avoid’. See the section on
allowed page breaks [p. 183] for the exact rules on how these properties may
force or suppress a page break.
13.3.2 Using named pages: ’page’
’page’
Value: | auto
Initial: auto
Applies to: block-level elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual, paged
The ’page’ property can be used to specify a particular type of page where an
element should be displayed.
Example(s):
This example will put all tables on a right-hand side landscape page (named
"rotated"):
@page rotated {size: landscape}
TABLE {page: rotated; page-break-before: right}
The ’page’ property works as follows: If a block box with inline content has a
’page’ property that is different from the preceding block box with inline content,
then one or two page breaks are inserted between them, and the boxes after the
break are rendered on a page box of the named type. See "Forced page breaks"
below. [p. 184]
Example(s):
In this example, the two tables are rendered on landscape pages (indeed, on
the same page, if they fit), and the page type "narrow" is not used at all, despite
having been set on the DIV:
@page narrow {size: 9cm 18cm}
@page rotated {size: landscape}
DIV {page: narrow}
TABLE {page: rotated}
with this document::
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13.3.3 Breaks inside elements: ’orphans’, ’widows’
’orphans’
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