Posted by mbstevens on 09/14/05 18:15

Larry wrote:
> I have a CGI program that generates a fairly long HTML table in
> response to a query. How do I make it so that the user can print the
> table from their browser and have the column headings show up on the
> top of each page? I know about the "page-break-after" style tag, but I
> have no way to know when to output it. Another option I've considered
> is something like Crystal Reports, but that's expensive, complex, and
> way more than what I need.
>

Since you are generating the pages with a programming language,
couldn't you come up with some kind of heuristic test?

if (position >= MAXROW)
generate break
if ((row contains x) and (position >= MINROW)
generate break
if ...
if ...
if ....

Should be easy enough to do in most CGI scripting languages.
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