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

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks Andrew & Dale for your experiences.  I'll report back on mine  
once I'm back to working on this project (currently in estimate/ 
proposal mode... yuck)

-Joel


On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Andrew Denman wrote:

> We've been using "page-break-after: always;" for a few years now  
> with great success.  If all you want is a normal page break, this  
> should work in all browsers.
>
> Andrew Denman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Dale Bengston
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:11 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] [OFF] printable very wide table?
>
> In my experience, and I last smashed my head on this last week, css  
> page-break attributes are not well supported by browsers. They work  
> in Firefox and that's about it.
>
> With HTML tables, though, I don't think you really have to worry.  
> They break pretty reliably between rows.
>
> Dale
>
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>
>> Dear Joel,
>>>
>>> That's a clever idea.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> I'll be testing the CSS page-breaks once I can dive back into this  
>>> project.  If it's not near-foolproof, I'll be going w/ PDFs.
>>
>> Which might be interesting as well... I'm kinda intrigued now, so I  
>> fiddled with FPDF for a few minutes...
>>
>> http://apachescricket.com/table_pdf_A4.php
>> Is set to A4 portrait, making the table off the right edge - only  
>> prints the left hand page
>>
>> http://apachescricket.com/table_pdf_custom.php
>> Is set to a custom width, with the table fitting inside - also  
>> doesn't print properly...
>>
>> YMMV
>>
>> Webko
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