I'm creating a report from a database. Downloading code is verboten where I work. So I'm kind of limited in what I can do (modules etc.).

I wanted to format it using HTML - easier than learning another formatting language (postscript or I don't know what else).

I'm using format and have it structured with a header, body and footer and it is readable in the browser. Now I'm trying to determine if it is possible to do proper pagination with all the normal header repeats, footer page numbers, not break rows across pages etc. I don't care if headers show in browser.

Is there a good/easy/best way to count how many lines are actually going to print (given variable length data which may wrap lines and html which doesn't count toward lines to print) from the print command on the browser so I can do some counts and plug in the header where appropriate?

Appreciate any wisdom you would share,
Gretchen

In reply to Pagination on HTML reports formatted with Format by Anonymous Monk

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