#458 Print List on more than one Page

[Meliza Amity]

Long lists should copy the page and column headers
and footers to all the printed pages.

Sample pages are for instance user-, individual-, family-,
source- etc. lists, search result lists and daily and
yearly calendar lists

[KosherJava]

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Meliza,
This is not complicated to implement.
It will require that tables that you expect to print have
proper HTML <thead>, <tbody> and optionally a <tfoot> tag.
Also we will need to add some css for IE.
Add to print.css:
thead { display: table-header-group; }

Make sure table has thead and tbody tags like this:
<table border="0" align="center" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Col #1 Header</th>
<th>Col #2 Header</th>
<th>Col #3 Header</th>
<th>Col #4 Header</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>DATA 1</td>
<td>DATA 2</td>
<td>DATA 3</td>
<td>DATA 4</td>
</tr>
..... repeat 100 times to see effect (or better yet add
to PGV ;) )
</tbody>
</table>

I do not think that we need tfoot

What I would like to do is add:
@media print rules to the regular style.css and get rid of
the print css or import the regular one into the print CSS.
This way styles will only change in one place and only the
few print specific changes will override the regular styles
when printing. This willget rid of the icon borders that
currently display when printing.
If you can get started on the simple code mentioned earlier
it would be great. I will try to play with the @media rules
or importing the regular css into the print over this
weekend. If not just leave it and I will get to it eventually ;(

[KosherJava]

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Just a short list of resources:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintingTables
http://www.xefteri.com/articles/show.cfm?id=26

and
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintStylesheets

[KosherJava]

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Can you explain what you mean about the page headers and
footers? For example if the footer stated that there were
300 people in the list would you really want this on every
page? I think that that would look odd. Secondly can you
explain what you mean by Page and Column headers? Typically
all you would want repeated were the table column headers.

[KosherJava]

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I did some work on this in the indilist.php but it is not
fully done. To do this properly, the way we have the table
split into only one TR with 1 or more TDs with individuals
split by <li> will pose problems with the way IE deals with
theader. The proper way to do this would be to yse TDs doe
every individual, with better styling such as alternating
row colors. This would require a change in the way we
display rows, because this way would require first splitting
the lsits and than alternate paining the first cell in the
first half, the first from the second half etc.