CSS Headers / Footers on Printout ????

[Rupe]

Hi CSS gurus!

I have an embarassing problem.

I am a php programmer and I try to expound the advantages of css on the php
newsgroups.

However, after telling someone that they should use css to solve their
problem, I am having trouble coming up with the goods! + I would like to
know the answer too.

I am sure this is a common task: how do you get headers and footers onto a
printout?

For instance, a box is formatted to A4 width and takes more than a page to
print. How do you get the box to 'page break' add a footer and a header and
resume printing the box, with borders etc. intact?

Is it possible with css1 (or at least a good proprtion of browsers).

Any help greatly appreciated.

RU

[Mark Tranchant]

Rupe wrote:

I am sure this is a common task: how do you get headers and footers onto a
printout?

For instance, a box is formatted to A4 width and takes more than a page to
print. How do you get the box to 'page break' add a footer and a header and
resume printing the box, with borders etc. intact?

Is it possible with css1 (or at least a good proprtion of browsers).

No. Headers and footers are a browser function, set up in the page
settings. Current browsers are generally poor at positioning page breaks.

--
Mark.

[Rupe]

"Mark Tranchant" <ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote in message
news:GQ*******************@stones.force9.net...

Rupe wrote:

I am sure this is a common task: how do you get headers and footers onto a printout?

For instance, a box is formatted to A4 width and takes more than a page to print. How do you get the box to 'page break' add a footer and a header and resume printing the box, with borders etc. intact?

Is it possible with css1 (or at least a good proprtion of browsers).

No. Headers and footers are a browser function, set up in the page
settings. Current browsers are generally poor at positioning page breaks.

--
Mark.

Thanks Mark,

I was thinking more of server generated running headers and footers on a
'print friendly' page(s).

You are right, browsers don't do this stuff yet:

Here's how to add a running footer, but its only supported in in CSS2
(unsupported
in most browsers):

http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-...html#page_area

Ru