How can I count CSS page breaks for printed HTML?

Question

I am generating reports using HTML and I am using CSS to control the page breaking using page-break-after, etc. I have given the user the option to print multiple reports at onc

Answer 1

I'm assuming you place a CSS page break at the end of each report and not manually at the end of each page. So your problem is to know when a page break will occur naturally within a long HTML document. The answer is - you can't. Even if you know how many lines of a table fit on a page (for example) you'll only know that for a given page size and print settings. If somebody decides to print your report on legal paper scaled 200% then your document will never know that. In my opinion, your options are 1) guess or 2) don't worry about it.