iPad and Desktop treating page-break-before differently

jandrews3 · March 18, 2014

I teach Spanish and I've written a script to create remediation sheets for students based on their recorded progress. So, my first objective is to generate a webpage with data for 35 different students pulled from a database. Way easy. My second objective is to put page breaks between the students so that I can print the webpage and every student has his/her own sheet. Kind-of-success.

My problem is that my laptop prints just fine, but I want this ability from my iPad. I've written my entire website so that I can teach from my iPad in class and be totally unbound from my laptop. When I run the same script (load the same page) from my iPad, I get an BLANK page between every student. I'm using page-break-before: always in a recurring <div></div> loop with the entire data-set for a student inside a div.

I captured a source code from the laptop AND from the iPad, and they're both identical. So, the problem is that they are treating the page-break-after differently. I don't understand. While the page is generated using PHP, that is not the issue. It is the browser interpretation of the CSS/HTML which is causing the problem. Hence, I have included the sample HTML source code for the first 2 students in the class.

Skill Remediation Spanish I

Name: Adams, Kendra

Today's date: Mar 17

Due date: Mar 20

C.O.P. Phrases

__________________________________1. Es importante.

__________________________________2. ¿Dónde está la grapadora?

__________________________________3. ¿Qué página?

__________________________________4. Me ayudas, por favor.

__________________________________5. Necesito la tarea.

Articles

__________________________________1. (some) perros

__________________________________2. (a) lápiz

__________________________________3. (some) carteles

__________________________________4. (a) coche

__________________________________5. (the) curso

Noun-Adjective Agreement

__________________________________1. casas (grande)

__________________________________2. texto (nuevo)

__________________________________3. playas (divertidos)

__________________________________4. playa (divertido)

__________________________________5. sobrinos (trabajador)

</div>

Skill Remediation Spanish I

Name: Brown, Brittney

Today's date: Mar 17

Due date: Mar 20

Preliminares Vocabulary

__________________________________1. Fine, thank you.

__________________________________2. Please.

__________________________________3. How much is it?

__________________________________4. It is at one o'clock.

__________________________________5. it's good weather.

Verb SER (Present Tense) Lv1

__________________________________1. Doug and Steve are from Cookeville.

__________________________________2. I am bad.

__________________________________3. Jeff is from Greenville.

__________________________________4. Where is she from?

__________________________________5. John is mean.

¿Cómo es?

__________________________________1. ¿Somos nosotros aburridos? (no)

__________________________________2. ¿Cómo eres? (hardworking)

__________________________________3. ¿Eres trabajador? (sí)

__________________________________4. ¿Cómo somos nosotros? (good)

__________________________________5. ¿Cómo es Mary? (pretty)

</div>

OKAY, LET ME BRIEFLY RESTATE THE PROBLEM HERE: Between the two <div></div> the iPad is printing a blank page, but the laptop is not. The laptop is printing as desired … one page per student. The iPad is printing one page per student with a blank page inbetween each. THANK YOU!!!

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