Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/20/06 16:59

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> In alt.html, matt@mailinator.com wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> Waiddaminnit. You said you had data in blocks of three rows. Yet you
>>> illustrated three _single_rows_, each in a separate <tbody>.
>> so i did. glaring omission; i was pretty burnt out working on it last
>> nite.
>>
>> updated HTML, but the problem is still the same as described -- IE 6
>> (win) inserts breaks directly into the <TBODY>s, even while using the
>> previously mentioned page-break instructions. this is confusing to
>> me. im not sure if IE is failing to "avoid" doing page breaks on my
>> <TBODY>s because A) its not supported, or B) because my attempts
>> havent been correct. (i dont have the HTML typos in my actual markup.
>> they are more complex tables which i reduced to simpler examples in
>> google's textbox for posting [no newsgroups fun at my org], probably
>> in too much of a hurry).
>
> Tell us if this page I tossed together from your code - adding some text
> to make it a meaningful length - is what you are attempting.
>
> http://k75s.home.att.net/tbody.html
>
> This works (page-break-after tbody) in Firefox, but not in IE or Opera.
>
The issue is with IE, so folks wonder why web developers b*tch about IE?

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Jonathan
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