Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ...

Controlling Page BreaksChapter 13: Styling for PrintTwo print properties, or paged media properties as it is referred to by the W3C, that all popularbrowsers have in common are page-break-before and page-break-after. These properties are outlinedin the following table.Propertypage-break-beforepage-break-afterValueauto | always | avoid | left | rightInitial value: autoauto | always | avoid | left | rightInitial value: autoThe page-break-before and page-break-after properties control where page breaks are made.Unfortunately, even though different browsers offer support for these two properties, they do not supportall the values that CSS 2 allows. Firefox, Safari, IE 6, and IE 7 support only the keywords alwaysand auto. Opera supports all of the keywords.The page-break-before and page-break-after properties dictate where a page break should bemade depending on where an element appears in a document. A demonstration of page-break-beforeis shown in Figure 13-4.Figure 13-4a497