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Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 19, 2008, 10:27 am
Please log in for more thread options salmanjavaheri@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Feb 19, 11:50 am, Harlan Messinger
>> salmanjavah...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>>> On 18 Feb, 09:09, salmanjavah...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>>>> Hi is there any simple way to get a footer in an html page?
>>>> No.
>>>> You can do this (and do it well) with XSL:FO, which is much more
>>>> complicated but is targetted more for print-based output and has far
>>>> better features for this sort of task. Not much use on the web though.
>>>> You could also try <table> markup and using <thead> and <tfoot>
>>>> elements. In _some_ contexts, these may be printed as repeated headers
>>>> and footers for each page that the table spans. Note though that this
>>>> has two drawbacks: It's far from reliable (print handling
>>>> implementation in HTML is usually poor and this behaviour isn't a
>>>> mandatory requirement anyway.) Secondly it's a clear abuse of <table>
>>>> as a purely layout feature.
>>> thanks for the help - will take a look
>>> i'm 99% sure whatever is in the head tag appears at the top of every
>>> page
>> You have a browser that prints the META and LINK tags at the top of each
>> page?- Hide quoted text -
> i'm getting worried now, just tried it on my office pc and...as you
> all said, it didn't work, will check out the one i did at home.
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> btw all this is for a replacement for the reports that are made in
> access, my reports are quite complicated, and very frustating to put
> together and edit in access, so i thought i'd try and move to html,
> but obviously the headers and footers are going to be an issue.
>
> Is xsl:fo THE solution for reports then? is it easy to learn?
As was mentioned, it isn't much use on the Web. AFAIK there is no
browser support.
How about using Word?
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