<div id="header">header</div>
<div id="content">
content spanning several pages...
</div>
<div id="footer">Footer - Fixed at the bottom of each page</div>
I want to print #header
and #footer
on every page in print mode. I searched a lot but nothing seems to work, even position:fixed
doesn't work as expected.
If you're willing to switch over to tables for your layout (not necessarily ideal), you can do it with the <thead>
and <tfoot>
elements. They'll print at the top and bottom of every page:
<table>
<thead>
<!-- Will print at the top of every page -->
</thead>
<tbody>
<!-- Page content -->
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<!-- Will print at the bottom of every page -->
</tfoot>
</table>
Another option is to use display table-header-group
and table-footer-group
but cross-browser support isn't great:
#header {
display: table-header-group;
}
#main {
display: table-row-group;
}
#footer {
display: table-footer-group;
}
I think I arrived too late :), but I was looking for something like this, and I found one answer that helps me (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDgFLysON98).
I wrote the div tag before and after the content like this
<div id="header">Top div content</div>
.
.
.
<div id="footer">Bottom div content</div>
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>``
<style>
body {
background-color: #CCC;
margin:48px 0px 0px 64px;
}
div#header {
position:fixed;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
color:#CCC;
background:#333;
padding:8px;
}
div#footer {
position:fixed;
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
color:#CCC;
background:#333;
padding:8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">HEADER</div>
<h1>Page Heading</h1>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<p>Content placeholder ...</p>
<div id="footer">FOOTER</div>
</body>
</html>
... I hope this helps.
For that you need to use the mso (microsoft office css properties) in your style:
<style><--
@page
{
size:21cm 29.7cmt;
margin:1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm;
mso-title-page:yes;
mso-page-orientation: portrait;
mso-header: header;
mso-footer: footer;
}
@page content {margin: 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm;}
div.content {page: content;}
</style>
Nisse Engstroms answer is correct. You just need to put the thead and tfoot content inside a tr to make it work.And it also is the best method because when you use absolute positioning in a div to make header and footer it will always overlap with your main body content on the next page.
<table>
<thead>
<tr> !-- these are important
<th id="header"> !--- these are important
!--- content of header here
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
!---- main body here
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th id="footer">
!----- content of footer here
</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>