Split text when printing pages

  • apgsmriti

    (@apgsmriti)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello! I’m trying to set up print-optimized versions of my webpages. I’m using WordPress and Elementor. I’ve run into a very fundamental problem: Lines of text and images are splitting between the bottom of one page and the top of the next. After several hours of searching, I discovered a “styling for print” page with css coding instructions (https://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_for_Print). I tried versions of this code:
    @media print {
    img { page-break-inside:avoid; }
    text { page-break-inside:avoid; }
    }
    This did fix the problem for images, but not for the text. This is a very basic design flaw in WordPress (or Elementor, which I suppose could be overriding the settings.) I have also tried to find a plugin, and so far have found none that work. This seems like it should have a simple fix. Thanks for your assistance!

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  • fullworks

    (@fullworks)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry that you are struggling with this.

    @media print {
img { page-break-inside:avoid; }
text { page-break-inside:avoid; }
}

    Is CSS so it is not specific to WordPress or Elementor but the way websites work in general with HTML.

    The issue you have is text is not an HTML element so will not be recognized.

    You need to use valid HTML e.g. p for paragraph 

    @media print {
img { page-break-inside:avoid; }
p { page-break-inside:avoid; }
}

    see https://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_for_Print#Page_Breaks for more examples

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    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    This is not a design flaw in WordPress, since WordPress isn’t responsible for the output on the front end. The theme is responsible for that, and it should have print styles. But a lot of themes do not bother.
    The last several default themes have print styles, because I advocated for them, although they might not all handle everything. You can read the print stylesheets for those Twenty* themes to see what is in them, and add it to your Custom CSS.

    Thread Starter apgsmriti

    (@apgsmriti)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for these suggestions. I tried the code “p { page-break-inside:avoid; }” but unfortunately it didn’t work. I also tried “pre” for good measure. I’m looking into the second comment right now.

    fullworks

    (@fullworks)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    You need to examine the html that is being split and then use the right selector.

    Thread Starter apgsmriti

    (@apgsmriti)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks. The html class of the text is either p, div, or span. I’ve tried all of these, one by one and together, and unfortunately none of them work. Sometimes these put large gaps into the printed pages, but they are still splitting individual lines of text.

    I found the print stylesheet for the newest WordPress theme, and it uses the same method. I also tried setting the page margins within the print css, but that also didn’t work.

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Those print styles don’t dictate no breaks, only that the breaks should be avoided if possible. Obviously, you can’t avoid a break of something that is longer than a page. And to try to put that on span tags is kinda crazy. It is usually for block elements such as tables and images.

    Thread Starter apgsmriti

    (@apgsmriti)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Perhaps the problem is on Elementor’s side, so I’ll see what I can find out through them. Honestly, this is a ridiculous problem. There is a design flaw somewhere.

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