I've read a lot of web-sites about printing page numbers, but still I couldn't make it display for my html page when I try to print it.
So the CSS code is next:
#page {
margin: 10%;
#top-center {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 2em;
content: counter(page);
}
}
I've tried to put this page rule inside
#media all {
*CSS code*
}
And outside of it, tried to put it in #media print, but nothing helped me to display the page numbers on my page. I've tried to use FireFox and Chrome(based on WebKit as you know). I think the problem is in my html or css code. Could somebody show me an example of implementing this #page rule in the big html page with several pages? I just need the code of html page and the code of css file, that works.
P.S. I have the latest supported versions of browsers.
As #page with pagenumbers don't work in browsers for now I was looking for alternatives.
I've found an answer posted by Oliver Kohll.
I'll repost it here so everyone could find it more easily:
For this answer we are not using #page, which is a pure CSS answer, but work in FireFox 20+ versions. Here is the link of an example.
The CSS is:
#content {
display: table;
}
#pageFooter {
display: table-footer-group;
}
#pageFooter:after {
counter-increment: page;
content: counter(page);
}
And the HTML code is:
<div id="content">
<div id="pageFooter">Page </div>
multi-page content here...
</div>
This way you can customize your page number by editing parametrs to #pageFooter. My example:
#pageFooter:after {
counter-increment: page;
content:"Page " counter(page);
left: 0;
top: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
z-index: 20;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
}
This trick worked for me fine. Hope it will help you.
Try to use https://www.pagedjs.org/. It polyfills page counter, header-/footer-functionality for all major browsers.
#page {
#bottom-left {
content: counter(page) ' of ' counter(pages);
}
}
It's so much more comfortable compared to alternatives like PrinceXML, Antennahouse, WeasyPrince, PDFReactor, etc ...
And it is totally free! No pricing or whatever. It really saved my life!
This javascript will add absolute positioned div's with pagenumbers on the right bottom corner and works in all browsers.
A4 height = 297mm = 1123px(96dpi)
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#page {
size: A4;
margin: 0;
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = addPageNumbers;
function addPageNumbers() {
var totalPages = Math.ceil(document.body.scrollHeight / 1123); //842px A4 pageheight for 72dpi, 1123px A4 pageheight for 96dpi,
for (var i = 1; i <= totalPages; i++) {
var pageNumberDiv = document.createElement("div");
var pageNumber = document.createTextNode("Page " + i + " of " + totalPages);
pageNumberDiv.style.position = "absolute";
pageNumberDiv.style.top = "calc((" + i + " * (297mm - 0.5px)) - 40px)"; //297mm A4 pageheight; 0,5px unknown needed necessary correction value; additional wanted 40px margin from bottom(own element height included)
pageNumberDiv.style.height = "16px";
pageNumberDiv.appendChild(pageNumber);
document.body.insertBefore(pageNumberDiv, document.getElementById("content"));
pageNumberDiv.style.left = "calc(100% - (" + pageNumberDiv.offsetWidth + "px + 20px))";
}
}
</script>
<div id="content">
Lorem ipsum....
</div>
</body>
</html>
Can you try this, you can use content: counter(page);
#page {
#bottom-left {
content: counter(page) "/" counter(pages);
}
}
Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#counters
http://www.princexml.com/doc/9.0/page-numbers/
If you are looking to add page numbers when printing under Chrome/Chromium, one easy solution is to use Paged.js.
This JS library takes your HTML/CSS and cuts it into pages, ready to print as a book, that you will preview in your browser. It makes the #page and most the CSS3 specifications work for Chrome.
Solution 1 (easy) if you are OK with cutting your view into pages, ready to print
Just add their CDN in the head tag of your page :
<link href="path/to/file/interface.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
You can then add page numbers by using the automated counter page. Example :
HTML to put anywhere you want to display the current page number:
<div class="page-number"></div>
CSS to make the number appear in the div :
.page-number{
content: counter(page)
}
The library also allows to easily manage page margins, footers, headers, etc.
Solution 2 (trickier) if you want to show numbers (and page breaks) only when printing
In this case, you need to apply the Paged.js CDN only when printing the document.
One way I can think of would be to add a print me button that fires Javascript to :
add the CDN to the page
and then execute window.print(); to launch the printing prompt of the navigator
I don't know if someone still out there needs the answer, try this, it might work for you
in your html file put a div element your html like this
<div class="page-number"></div>
and do your css like this
.page-number:before {
content: "Page: " counter(page);}
hope it works for you
I know this is not a coding answer but it is what the OP wanted and what I have spent half the day trying to achieve - print from a web page with page numbers.
Print to pdf without the numbers
Run it through ilovepdf here https://www.ilovepdf.com/add_pdf_page_number which adds the page numbers
Yes, it is two steps instead of one but I haven't been able to find any CSS option despite several hours of searching. Real shame all the browsers removed the functionality that used to allow it.
This is what you want:
#page {
#bottom-right {
content: counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
}
}
I use page numbers styled in CSS to generated PDF documents, and it works:
#page {
size: A4 portrait;
margin-top: 1.2cm;
margin-bottom: 1.2cm;
margin-left: 1.2cm;
margin-right: 1.2cm;
background-image: url('../../images/logo_small.png');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 40px 10px;
#bottom-center {
content: counter(page);
}
}
**#page {
margin-top:21% !important;
#top-left{
content: element(header);
}
#bottom-left {
content: element(footer
}
div.header {
position: running(header);
}
div.footer {
position: running(footer);
border-bottom: 2px solid black;
}
.pagenumber:before {
content: counter(page);
}
.pagecount:before {
content: counter(pages);
}
<div class="footer" style="font-size:12pt; font-family: Arial; font-family: Arial;">
<span>Page <span class="pagenumber"/> of <span class="pagecount"/></span>
</div >**
Related
It happens that I have an HTML page that will be printed. I wanted to add a page counter and was trying to use #page for that. But then, I noticed that #page was not working at all in Internet Explorer. It works in Chrome, though. Everything except the content property, that doesn't show.
Here's the code
#page {
size: auto; /* auto is the current printer page size */
margin: 10%; /* this affects the margin in the printer settings */
#bottom-center{
font-family: FlamaSemicond-Basic;
font-size: 10pt;
color: black;
content: "Hello!";
}
}
I have a similar issue: using Chrome 79. Here it says (I think?) that '#page' is (mostly) supported by Chrome - https://caniuse.com/#search=%40page
And this gives an example: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-page-3/
(their Example number 12 shown below).
The following style sheet establishes a page header containing the
title ("Hamlet") on the left side and the page number, preceded by
"Page ", on the right side:
#page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 10%;
#top-left {
content: "Hamlet"; } #top-right {
content: "Page " counter(page); } }
When I test it - Chrome obeys the page size, but doesnt show the page numbers.
I'm trying add a simple text watermark that I want to appear for each page that it will get printed on and look reasonable on Firefox, IE and Chrome.
I've gone through all the related threads that I could find and have applied the suggested answers, but to no avail. Either it appears fine on every page, but doesn't show on the first page (Firefox). Or it only appears on the first page (Chrome). Or doesn't show at all.
I was wondering, is there a standard way to do css watermarks that works for all browsers that I may have missed somehow?
For those curious as to what my html/css looks like at the moment:
<div class="watermark">This is a watermark!</div>
#media print {
.watermark {
display: inline;
position: fixed !important;
opacity: 0.25;
font-size: 3em;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
z-index: 1000;
top:700x;
right:5px;
}
}
Any help is much appreciated!
Edit: This isn't just for watermarking images, otherwise as suggested I should use an image editor. This is for watermarking pages of document content (sections of text of various sizes).
The real problem is that you need a .watermark at the bottom of each printed page, but CSS has no concept of these printed pages.
The best you could probably do is to use the page-break-after CSS attribute to force a page break at certain points, then you could position your watermark just before that.
Something like (untested):
#media all {
.watermark {
display: none;
background-image: url(...);
float: right;
}
.pagebreak {
display: none;
}
}
#media print {
.watermark {
display: block;
}
.pagebreak {
display: block;
page-break-after: always;
}
}
<body>
some content for page 1...
<div class="watermark"></div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
some content for page 2...
<div class="watermark"></div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
</body>
Really I think those 2 classes could just be the same element, but this seemed more understandable in code.
The down side here of course is that you need to manually specify where each page break happens, and realistically, if someone prints your webpage on a 4"x6" notecard, its going to be radically different than standard size paper. But still, it's a step in the right direction.
You can't do this in css, simply because it won't work.
Think of this, the user just removes your css, gets your image URLs and copies the images, without the watermark. Right click 'save image url' will also bypass css.
There are two good ways to add watermarks that are fail-safe.
Edit the actual images
If you have control over the images, such as if you are building a photography portfolio, just batch process them in your image editor and add the watermarks before you upload them to the web.
This is a good idea because then your images are ready watermarked regardless of where you use them, so they're social media / promo pack ready etc.
Do it on request
Set up an .htaccess rule that intercepts any image requests and redirects them via some server side code that uses an image processing library to add the watermark and return the binary image data. You can cache a watermarked image with a hash code and check for a watermarked version existing first that will allow you to bypass the processing.
This means that any image request, regardless of whether it comes from css, HTML, or a direct URL will serve a watermarked image. Do use some logic to skip any images used for the decoration of your site, otherwise you'll get watermarked in unexpected places!
The advantage here is that the original image is untouched, if you update your watermark, perhaps as part of a rebranding, you won't need to update all your images.
Another advantage of this approach is that you can apply it to any images, even if you don't create them - for example, if you have users uploading images to your site. Care should be taken with this however, before you watermark, make sure you have the right to watermark the image.
issue reason.
print not support background-image.
This is my solution.
1.Absoluted position for Main elements(need to print div).
2.add element
<style>
.mainContend{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}
.watermark{
opacity: .8;
}
</style>
<script>
var addWatermark = function () {
var bodHeight = document.body.scrollHeight;
//imge size is 1000*400px
var imgNum = Math.floor(bodHeight/400) ;
var template = '<img src="../img/icon/watermark.png" class="watermark">';
var innerHTML;
//create image number
for(var i = 0;i < imgNum;i++){
innerHTML +=template;
}
// innerHTML.appendTo("#reportContent);
$("#reportContent").append(innerHTML);
}
window.onload = addWatermark;
</script>
<div id="reportContent">
<div class="mainContend" id="mainContend">
content reportContentreportContentreportContent
</div>
</div>
Here is how I successfully managed to use watermark on every page in print preview
HTML:
<!-- place this only once in page -->
<div style="opacity: .5; filter: alpha(opacity=50);" class="watermark"></div>
<!-- place this in your table thead -->
<div style="opacity: .5; filter: alpha(opacity=50);" class="watermark_print"></div>
CSS:
div.watermark_print{
display: none;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: url("{{{watermark}}}") no-repeat;
background-position: center;
z-index: 99999999;
border: none !important;
background-size: 400px !important;
}
div.watermark {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: url("{{{watermark}}}") no-repeat;
background-position: center;
z-index: 99999999;
border: none !important;
background-size: 400px !important;
}
table {
width: 100%;
table-layout: fixed;
border-spacing: 0;
}
#media print {
div.watermark {
display: none;
}
div.watermark_print {
display: block;
position: fixed;
inset: 0;
}
}
That should do the trick, we have two watermark, one in HTML page review and another hidden in normal view but in print preview, we show it and because we are repeating table header in every page so we have this watermark on every page.
I want to add a page numbers when printing the document and I did search on it and I found that we can achieve this using CSS. For this we need to use #page css property. So I have added the following code
#page {
/*margin-top: 15mm;*/
margin-bottom: 25mm;
margin-left: 30mm;
margin-right: 30mm;
#bottom-center {
counter-increment: page;
counter-reset: page 1;
content: "page " counter(page);
}
}
But I am facing the one problem, the above mentioned properties all are applied but my page numbers are not displaying. I don't know why its happening.
Can anyone facing the same issue? or anyone know the solution,please help out to fix this issue.
You may try this,
content: counter(page)
#page {
#bottom-left {
content: counter(page);
}
}
I have the following CSS:
#media print {
div.question-list-footer
{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
padding-left: 180px;
}
div.question-list-footer-center
{
text-align: center;
}
#page { counter-reset: page 1}
}
#pageNumber:after { content: counter(page); }
#pageNumber { counter-increment: page; }
and the following html on my page:
<div class="question-list-footer">
<div class="question-list-footer-center">
<span>Page Number: <span id="pageNumber"></span></span><br/>
Date: #firstItem.Date.Value.ToShortDateString()
Id: #firstItem.Id
</div>
</div>
and this works when printing except that all pages have "Page Number 1". (IE9, Chrome & FF) I have been staring at this and playing with it for ages and still can't see why. Does anyone have a fix? - Please tell me it's not obvious. (FWIW - Chrome doesn't like my bottom).
I think this line:
#page { counter-reset: page 1}
Means:
“On each printed page, reset the page counter to 1.”
See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-counter-reset
Hence every page would have page number 1, as you’re resetting it to 1 on each page.
Does it work if you do body { counter-reset: page 1} instead? (Like in the example from the spec.)
EDIT
I think if you just remove this, the counter won't be reset so it will just increment like you want
#page { counter-reset: page 1}
How do I declare that a DIV should be displayed in top-left corner of every page and not in its relative position.
I have a div like:
<div id=header>Document</div>
and I would like to display it on every page in top left corner using css like:
#page {
size: 8.5in 11in;
margin: 0.25in;
border: thin solid black;
padding: 1em;
#top-left {
content: ???? ;
}
}
Thank you.
I realise that this question is a bit old, but for anyone like me who comes here searching for a way to do this, it is possible using CSS3 running elements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070504/#running1
In this example, the header is hidden from view in all media types except print. On printed pages, the header is displayed top center on all pages, except where h1 elements appear.
<style>
div.header { display: none }
#media print {
div.header {
display: block;
position: running(header);
}
#page { #top-center { content: element(header, last-except) }}
</style>
...
<div class="header">Introduction</div>
<h1 class="chapter">An introduction</div>
Doesn't
#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
work? See Printing Headers. Also, have a look at the W3C specification of position: fixed.
EDIT: if I read the CSS 3 specs concerning Margin Boxes well enough, together with the CSS 2.1 specs about the content property, I don't think you can embed a <div> from your page into the contents of a Margin Box, alas.