Sent by Michael Grice on 29 October 2004 13:01
I work for a federal court unit. Our need is to print a daily court
docket, showing the cases and matters which will be heard for the day.
Each of our judges have preferences in the style of the docket, so we
want to use CSS in order to be able to control the font, weight, etc.
to accomodate this preference.
The docket is available on-line, for weeks prior to court, and is also
printed for the day of court. The printing requirement means that we
need to have a "report header" (court name, judge, date and time) and
"report footer" (page x of y) repeat on the printout. I have Googled
this thing every which way and cannot come up with a CSS solution. The
only thing, it appears, which can accomodate this is SmartTags.
Our calendar is basically a table, so I realize CSS cannot meet our
needs 100%. We have been able to achieve this effect using SmartTags.
And we have successfully tested it in Firefox and IE (the two main
browsers we program for). But the code is extremely bloated, to say the
least.
I have read some things on-line that were opposed to SmartTags. But
most of what I found was several years old and dealt with theoretical
issues/problems with SmartTags before much was known; or raised
copyright and Intellectual Property issues which are not germaine to
our situation.
So, I give all of this background to ask:
1). Is there a CSS solution which would allow a report HEADER and
FOOTER to repeat on each printed page?
2). Do you know of any browser-type pitfalls that may lie ahead of us
if we implement a SmartTag solution?
THANK YOU for any input or help you are able to provide.
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