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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:09:55+00:00

I have an input document of XML data that will resolve nicely into data

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I have an input document of XML data that will resolve nicely into data cards that can be printed 2 to a page (or maybe 4 to a page, or 9 to a page, or something).

What’s the best way for me to style the data for them to be printed that way? For example, how can I say “Make this div extend 1/3 of the way down a printed page”?

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  1. Editorial Team

    HTML isn’t really intended for exact display in that way. Having said that…

    If you know the paper size, you can perhaps be clever with the units in a print stylesheet (i.e. using cm rather than px or em). You may even be able to use percentages and not worry about the paper size too much, but I haven’t tested this. It would also depend on the content, its layout, and how different the paper sizes might be.

    An example of using percentages (to force a <div> to be 1/3 the page height) would be specifying height: 33% in the CSS.

    It is also possible to force page breaks in CSS, by specifying page-break-after: always (or page-break-before: always if that is more convenient).

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