HTML Printing: Use a Style Sheet to Force a Page Break

Contributed by MickeyMouse August 25, 2004  
Tagged: HTTP

Designing web pages for printing can be difficult. Here’s how to force a printer to insert a page break.

Designing web pages that can be easily printed can be very, very difficult. PDFs are perfect, but expensive to do dynamically. Anyway, here is a cheap way to insert a page break into a page.

Place the following code in the HEAD of the html:

<STYLE TYPE='text/css'>
P.pagebreakhere {page-break-before: always}
</STYLE>

Then place the following code in the BODY of the html where you want the pagebreak:

<P CLASS="pagebreakhere">