Question

Lets say we have a table with many rows. When transforming my XML to a PFD via XSLT I want certain rows to not split across a page break. At the moment I have

<table>
  <tr>...</tr>
  <tr>...</tr>
  <div style="page-break-inside:avoid">
    <tr>...</tr>
    <tr>...</tr>
  </div>
  <tr>...</tr>
</table>

That works well to a point. Porblem is that the columns within the div nolonger inherit their widths from the first row in the table as normal.

Is there anything I can do with the div to maintian the inheritance? Or should I try a different approach?

Answer 1

It is invalid HTML syntax to have <div> as a child of <table>.

Try this instead…

<table>
  <tr>...</tr>
  <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid">...</tr>
  <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid">...</tr>
  <tr>...</tr>
</table>

Or better still, set it via CSS – either against all <tr> elements…

<style type="text/css">
  tr { page-break-inside:avoid }
</style>

… or set class="myTR" as an attribute of the <tr>, and then…

<tr class="myTR">...</tr>

<style type="text/css">
  .myTR { page-break-inside:avoid }
</style>