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Re:Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to... by romey on Friday April 18, 2014 @12:31PM (#7609840)
"page-break-inside: avoid" and "page-break-after" seem to work fairly reliably, as long as you aren't doing too much weird stuff with positioning, floats, etc.

Three major problems I've had with printing from HTML is 1) It seems that the different browsers have different default margins, and the outside margins aren't controllable from CSS 2) The javascript print dialog doesn't give any sort of feedback...it just blocks JS execution. There's no way to no if the user cancelled the print, etc. 3) Different browsers don't reliably resize things to fit on the page. Using percentages for anything (while maybe not recommended anyway) just doesn't work for printed CSS

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Re:Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to... by ef4 on Monday April 21, 2014 @11:59AM (#7621694)
I fought with those and eventually gave up, because their implementations were either broken or missing in the browsers I was supporting. But that probably 18 months ago now. Maybe they have improved.
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