[FX.php List] [OFF] printable very wide table?

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

Dear Joel,
>
> You're right about row height.  I hadn't expressed my concern well.   
> My concern really was printing the same rows consistently page after  
> page without reliable page breaks.  I'm worried that if I try to  
> 'fudge' page breaks by div height, then at some point a user might  
> get rows 1-35 on pages 1-3, but then page 4 might be only rows 1-34  
> and then page 5 would be row 35, then a gap, & then rows 1-34-ish.   
> (Or is there something I'm not getting?)

As each row must be exactly the same height all the way across the  
page, no matter how wide, it should print reliably.
>
> I hadn't known about the CSS page-break-after property, so that  
> might be a good solution.
>
> Then again... as I think about it even more...  I'm wondering now if  
> a user's browser is set to "scale to fit", then if one page has  
> fewer columns than another, might one page scale differently than  
> other pages, or would all pages print at the same scaling per print  
> job, regardless of indiv page widths?  (scaling differently probably  
> *would* grow or shrink row height).  I'd hope each print job would  
> be consistent across all pages, but is that something I can trust  
> across browsers, OSes, and moving into the future?

It has to print each row at the same height - rows do not change  
heights halfway across or anything...

Of course, it wouldn;t take long to test this - except it looks like  
my browsers won't print a plain table to full width - I was trying to  
use http://apachescricket.com/table.php as an example, but it only  
wants to print Col1...

Cheers

Webko
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