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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	It's really a confusion of terms that isn't defined fully in the CSS 2 Specification. @page does not mean "a piece of paper from a printer". The only place I find a real definition of @page is in the W3C CSS Mobile Profile 1.0, [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile#section-selectors]http://www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile#section-selectors[/url] [quote]@page "Defines a (optionally named) page formatting context"[/quote] So what? Well there are [b]five[/b] paged media types: embossed, handheld, print, projection and TV. Think: media type = device. @page rules by themselves to not tell the browser which of the five paged media types (devices) the rule applies to. It merely tells the browser to use the page box model instead of the usual box model and gives it some properties of that page box. In other words, a page formatting context. It needs to be tied to a media type (device), in this case, media="print" in order for the browser to make sense of it. Therefore, you need a separate style block for the CSS that apply specifically to printed media, and your @page rule goes within it. Or you can use Slime's method above within a style block for another media type (or within a media="all" block) to say, "Oh, by the way, use this rule instead when you print." [img]http://www.brucew.com/ozone/b-ozone-sig.gif[/img] Loading...
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