A HTML report that is going to be printable, and it has “sections” that should start in a new page.
Is there any way to put something in the HTML/CSS that will signal to the browser that it needs to force a page break (start a new page) at that point? Especially for creating a PDF with HTML and transfored by PDFKit.
Add a CSS class called “pagebreak” (or “pb”), like so:
@media print .pagebreak < page-break-before: always; >/* page-break-after works, as well */
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Then add an empty DIV tag (or any block element that generates a box) where you want the page break.
It won’t show up on the page, but will break up the page when printing.
P.S. Perhaps this only applies when using -after (and also what else you might be doing with other s on the page), but I found that I had to augment the CSS class as follows:
@media print .pagebreak clear: both;
page-break-after: always;
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By changing it to page-break-before instead of page-break-after it seems to work. This is what I changed your contextString to, I used a multiline string as it is easier to read and gave it some clearer content.
let contextString = """
Content in page 1
Content in page 2
"""
Here is a very simple example that you could drop into Xcode.
class ViewController: UIViewController let button = UIButton()
override func viewDidLoad() super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
view.addSubview(button)
button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false button.setTitle("Print", for: .normal)
button.setTitleColor(.systemBlue, for: .normal)
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(tapped), for: .touchUpInside) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
button.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor),
button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor),
button.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor, constant: 20),
])
view.backgroundColor = .systemBackground
> @objc func tapped() let contextString = """
Content in page 1
Content in page 2
""" let print = UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter(markupText: contextString)
let render = UIPrintPageRenderer()
render.addPrintFormatter(print, startingAtPageAt: 0) let page = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 595.2, height: 841.8) // A4, 72 dpi
render.setValue(page, forKey: "paperRect")
render.setValue(page, forKey: "printableRect") let pdfData = NSMutableData()
UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData(pdfData, .zero, nil) for i in 0..
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UIGraphicsEndPDFContext(); let av = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: [pdfData], applicationActivities: nil) self.present(av, animated: true, completion: nil)
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Here is a gif of it showing the two pages with the text:
use page-break-inside: avoid; to avoid page break inside