Once we created an ASP.NET Web Application having web forms the next request was to organize carbon copy of these forms: do print them and support page breaks.
The solution is:
- declare dedicated div style class for separate print pages
- add page-break-after: always; property to this class
- enclose the print pages in separate div elements and set their style to the class declared above
Example:
the ASP.net Form:
<%@PageLanguage="C#"AutoEventWireup="true"CodeFile="WebForm.aspx.cs"Inherits="WebForm"%>
<!DOCTYPEhtml PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<headrunat="server">
<styletype="text/css"media="screen">
.formLabel
{
min-width: 100px;
color: Blue;
}
.formTextBox
{
width: 200px;
}
</style>
<styletype="text/css"media="print">
.formLabel
{
min-width: 100px;
color: Black;
}
.formPage
{
page-break-after: always;
}
.formTextBox
{
width: 200px;
}
</style>
<title>Department Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<formid="form1"runat="server">
<div>
<divclass="formPage">
<asp:LabelID="LabelName"runat="server"Text="Name:"CssClass="formLabel"Width="100px"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxName"runat="server"CssClass="formTextBox"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
<asp:LabelID="LabelPhone"runat="server"Text="Phone:"CssClass="formLabel"Width="100px"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxPhone"runat="server"CssClass="formTextBox"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
</div>
<divclass="formPage">
<asp:LabelID="LabelAddress"runat="server"Text="Address:"CssClass="formLabel"
Width="100px"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxAddress"runat="server"CssClass="formTextBox"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
<asp:LabelID="LabelRegPlate"runat="server"Text="Reg. Plate:"CssClass="formLabel"
Width="100px"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxRegPlate"runat="server"CssClass="formTextBox"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The form in browser: 
The form in print view:
Enjoy!
1 comment:
Thanks a bunch! Frankly I didn't think it was possible to effect a printer page break via an aspx program. This saves me a lot of trouble!
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