pageBreaks question

[sridhar anna]

Hi All,

Here is a scenario I need some direction on:

<LINK rel="stylesheet" href="../some_style_sheet.css" type="text/css">

for loop start
<table>
<tr><td>VALUES RETREIVED FROM DB</td></tr>
</table>
for loop end

The loop can run upto 100 times. The external style sheet is used to format the contents within the <tr></tr> tags.

"VALUES RETREIVED FROM DB" is dynamic, and hence each row height is different throughout the loop, but when printed, the row height never exceeds the page height.

Now, I want to print all the 100 rows, I want to avoid page breaks between <tr></tr> tags. I cannot use the CSS "page-break-before:always "as each row height is different. I was wondering if I could use the xsl attribute, "keep-together.within-column". I am relatively new to xsl, xslt, xsl-fo and any help on how to get this working would be much appreciated. I am developing jsp using unix and jboss. Thanks in advance.
[ January 21, 2006: Message edited by: sridhar anna ]

[sridhar anna]

Hi,

Can anyone point me in a direction how to make pageBreaks.

Much Thanks.

[Paul Clapham]

Okay. I will take a wild guess: you are talking about the printed version of an HTML page.

In that case, if you want to avoid page breaks inside a certain element, then the CSS style "page-break-inside:avoid" is probably what you are looking for. I found a description of that here:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pagebi.asp

However if your "pages" are some other pages (for example you mentioned XSL-FO which would suggest they are PDF pages) then clarification would be welcome.

[sridhar anna]

Thank you for the reply.

I already tried the css approach. It doesnot work for me as the row heights are not constant. And within the html, I pull data from the database and put it in each row and that data determines the row height.

Is there any other approach other than CSS. Thanks in advance.

[Paul Clapham]

If page-break-avoid doesn't work for you, then it wasn't because the row heights aren't constant. That CSS style doesn't have anything to do with rows as such, it works on blocks. And when it is invoked it should not care about other times (i.e. other rows) when it was or was not invoked.

So if you found it didn't work, that was either because (a) the browser you tried it in doesn't handle it correctly, or (b) you didn't use it correctly.