Question

Is there some syntax I can use in my media="print" CSS which will make one div element cover an entire printed page?

<div id="important_thing">Important!</div>
<ol id="other_stuff">
  <li>Thing</li>
  <li>blah</li>
</ol>

print.css

#important_thing {
  width:100%;
  height:100%;
}

#other_stuff li {
  float:left;
  width:20pt;
  height:8pt;
}

This doesn’t have the desired effect. I’d like to have an entire page for ‘important stuff’ and as many other pages as required for all the list elements.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use a page-break-after

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_print_pageba.asp

#important_thing { 
  width:100%; 
  height:100%;
  page-break-after:always 
}

You may have to combine it with a page-break-before:always