[html] How to apply CSS page-break to print a table with lots of rows?

I have a dynamic table in my web page that sometimes contains lots of rows. I know there are page-break-before and page-break-after CSS properties. Where do I put them in my code in order to force page breaking if needed?

I have looked around for a fix for this. I have a jquery mobile site that has a final print page and it combines dozens of pages. I tried all the fixes above but the only thing I could get to work is this:

<div style="clear:both!important;"/></div>
<div style="page-break-after:always"></div> 
<div style="clear:both!important;"/> </div>

this is working for me:

<td>
  <div class="avoid">
    Cell content.
  </div>
</td>
...
<style type="text/css">
  .avoid {
    page-break-inside: avoid !important;
    margin: 4px 0 4px 0;  /* to keep the page break from cutting too close to the text in the div */
  }
</style>

From this thread: avoid page break inside row of table

I eventually realised that my bulk content that was overflowing the table and not breaking properly simply didn't even need to be inside a table.

While it's not a technical solution, it solved my problem to simply end the table when I no longer needed a table; then started a new one for the footer.

Hope it helps someone... good luck!

Unfortunately the examples above didn't work for me in Chrome.

I came up with the below solution where you can specify the max height in PXs of each page. This will then splits the table into separate tables when the rows equal that height.

$(document).ready(function(){

    var MaxHeight = 200;
    var RunningHeight = 0;
    var PageNo = 1;

    $('table.splitForPrint>tbody>tr').each(function () {

        if (RunningHeight + $(this).height() > MaxHeight) {
            RunningHeight = 0;
            PageNo += 1;
        }

        RunningHeight += $(this).height();

        $(this).attr("data-page-no", PageNo);

    });

    for(i = 1; i <= PageNo; i++){

        $('table.splitForPrint').parent().append("<div class='tablePage'><hr /><table id='Table" + i + "'><tbody></tbody></table><hr /></div>");

        var rows = $('table tr[data-page-no="' + i + '"]');

        $('#Table' + i).find("tbody").append(rows);
    }
    $('table.splitForPrint').remove();

});

You will also need the below in your stylesheet

    div.tablePage {
        page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:always;            
    }

You should use

<tbody> 
  <tr>
  first page content here 
  </tr>
  <tr>
  ..
  </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
  next page content...
</tbody>

And CSS:

tbody { display: block; page-break-before: avoid; }
tbody { display: block; page-break-after: always; }

If you know about how many you want on a page, you could always do this. It will start a new page after every 20th item.

.row-item:nth-child(20n) {
    page-break-after: always;
    page-break-inside: avoid;
}

Here is an example:

Via css:

<style>
  .my-table {
    page-break-before: always;
    page-break-after: always;
  }
  .my-table tr {
    page-break-inside: avoid;
  }
</style>

or directly on the element:

<table style="page-break-before: always; page-break-after: always;">
  <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;">
    ..
  </tr>
</table>

Wherever you want to apply a break, either a table or tr, you needs to give a class for ex. page-break with CSS as mentioned below:

/* class works for table row */
table tr.page-break{
  page-break-after:always
} 

<tr class="page-break">

/* class works for table */
table.page-break{
  page-break-after:always
}

<table class="page-break">

and it will work as you required

Alternatively, you can also have div structure for same:

CSS:

@media all {
 .page-break  { display: none; }
}

@media print {
 .page-break  { display: block; page-break-before: always; }
}

Div:

<div class="page-break"></div>