What you are proposing is possible to do in html, if you add some Cascading Style Sheets to the mix. You will need to use the page-break-after attribute: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#propdef-page-break-after It would look something like this (in plain html): <table style="page-break-after: always"> <tr> <td>row1col1</td> <td>row1col2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>row2col1</td> <td>row2col2</td> </tr> ... <tr> <!--'N' represents the number of rows you wish to print before a form-feed --> <td>rowNcol1</td> <td>rowNcol2</td> </tr> </table> <!--A printed page break would occur here--> <table style="page-break-after: always"> <!--Wash, rinse, repeat--> AFAIK, you'll have to close the table each time you want to print a line feed, although if you want to keep your table together, you might try putting the 'style="page-break-after: always"' attribute inside the appropriate <tr> tag. No guarantees, tho, as I haven't tried it this way, and it seems to go against the way CSS should work. Also, not every browser supports these CSS attributes. You should be fine on Netscape 6.0/Mozilla and IE 5 or better (not sure about IE, tho). ________________________________________ Nathaniel Price http://www.thornvalley.com "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason S Motes" <jmotes@luhcares.org> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: Re: sending a form feed to a printer > form feeds don't work in html. It is interpreted as a space. > > Arthur Chevalier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am having problems getting the \f (form feed) expression to work. After a > > certain amount of lines print I want to start printing the next line on a > > new sheet of paper. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong. Below is a > > sample piece of my code. The bold code is where I am trying to issue the > > form feed. > > > > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbResult)) > > { > > print("<TR>\n"); > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\"><A > > HREF=\"show_single_server.php?server_name=$row[0]\" TARGET=\"text_float\">" > > . $row[0] . "</TD>\n"); > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\">". $row[1] . "</TD>\n"); > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\">". $row[2] . "</TD>\n"); > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\"><A > > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?mid_tier=$row[3]&db_rel=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">". > > $row[3] . "</TD>\n"); > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\"><A > > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?db_rel=$row[4]&mid_tier=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">". > > $row[4] . "</TD>\n"); > > > > $rowdata = $row[5]; > > if($rowdata == "") > > { > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\"> </TD>\n"); > > } > > else > > { > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\">". $row[5] . "</TD>\n"); > > } > > print("<TD class=\"tdborder\">". $row[6] . "</TD>\n"); > > //print("</TR>\n"); > > > > if($counter == "20") > > { > > $counter = "0"; > > print("</TR>\f"); > > continue; > > } > > else > > { > > $counter ++; > > print("</TR>"); > > continue; > > } > > > > } > > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
