header and footer in each page in print mode with css

Question

I have a web application and it has a report that might exceed one page and I would like to print a header and footer in every page. i find and try this: Repeating a report header in each page but it didn't work for me.I try opera,IE9,Firefox,Google Chrome but ... nothing.page-margin works fine but content is what I want and it doesn't work.

Solution 1

You can set a position: fixed; header and footers so that it will repeat on each page

For Example

<header class="onlyprint"><!--Content Goes Here--></header>
<footer class="onlyprint"><!--Content Goes Here--></footer>

@media screen {
    header.onlyprint, footer.onlyprint{
        display: none; /* Hide from screen */
    }
}

@media print {
    header.onlyprint {
        position: fixed; /* Display only on print page (each) */
        top: 0; /* Because it's header */
    }
    footer.onlyprint {
        position: fixed;
        bottom: 0; /* Because it's footer */
    }
}

Solution 2

I really appreciate your reply but i have used this solution(position : fixed) before and the content of the page would be masked by the header. so i have to use "@page" which only works with "Margin" property and "Content" does not work or in other words i cannot reach the result i want.

Solution 3

There is currently a bug in the webkit engine (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100075) that results in totaly misplaced footers.

Solution 4

I found a solution that worked for me and only one that works without problem.

In html

<table>
        <thead><tr><td>
            <div class="header-space">&nbsp;</div>
        </td></tr></thead>
        <tbody><tr><td>
            <div id="pageHost" class="content"></div>
        </td></tr></tbody>
        <tfoot><tr><td>
            <div class="footer-space">&nbsp;</div>
        </td></tr></tfoot>
    </table>
    <header id="pageHeader">
    </header>
    <footer id="pageFooter">
        Custom Footer
        <div class="numberOfPages">

        </div>
    </footer>

in css

            header, .header-space,
            footer, .footer-space {
                height: 100px;
                font-weight: bold;
                width: 100%;
                padding: 10pt;
                margin: 10pt 0;
            }

            header {
                position: fixed;
                top: 0;
                border-bottom: 1px solid black;
            }

            footer {
                position: fixed;
                bottom: 0;
                border-top: 1px solid black;
            }

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Comments

[Quentin]

Possible duplicate of How to use HTML to print header and footer on every printed page of a document?

[Mr. Alien]

@PauFracés It was not supporting previously, not sure about the current status, I had used it for firefox way back so thought this might help him

[Pau Fracés]

I'm dealing with the same topic, but need it working on webkit. I haven't been able to do it with html+css so I am working right now in a javascirpt library for get the job done. Hence my interest

[frequent]

It will work with position:fixed. For example, if you set the margin of @page:margin-top:2mm, damp the html page to html:margin-top:20mm and your fixed header to header:margin:0. This will put your fixed header at page margin of 2mm while the page content will adhere to html margin 20mm. No overlap, even on print out.

[Piotr Kula]

This works really well. But is there a way I can say like, I dont want a header on a specific page. Like last page or a page in the middle somehow?

[Piotr Kula]

the html margin is a clever trick. Works swell. Do you know if I can change that per printed page though?

[Mile Mijatović]

Is there some solution to print header logo just on first page instead of each page?

[Charles L.]

This bug was fixed in 2013, and looks like it was probably released around 2014 (around version 36).

[Mark]

I cannot find a combination of @page margin and html margin settings that work for multiple pages for Chrome as of writing.