CSS Print

@page

@page {
  size: A5 portrait;
  margin: 10mm;
}

@page:right @page:left

@page:right {
  margin-left: 3cm; /*inner*/
  margin-right: 1cm; /*outer*/ 
  
  @bottom-right {
    content: "Testing 123!!!";
  }
  
  @bottom-center {
    content: "Testing margin notes";
  }
}

---

@page:left {
  margin-right: 10mm; /*inner*/
  margin-left: 15mm; /*outer*/

  @bottom-left {
    content: "Testing margin notes";
  }

  @bottom-center {
    content: "More margin notes";
  }
}

@page custom sections

@page custom{
  background-color: lightyellow;
  
  @bottom-center {
    content: "A custom note in the bottom-center margin :)";
  }
}

section#custom{
  page: custom;
}

@page:first

@page:first {
  @bottom-center { 
    content: ""; 
  }
  @bottom-right { 
    content: ""; 
  }
}

@page:nth()

@page:nth(3) {
  background-color: pink;
}

pagenumbers

@page{

    @bottom-left{
        content: counter(page);
    }
}

pagebreaks

Force page breaks before each h1:

h1 {
  break-before: always;
}

Start a section on the right page:

section {
  break-before: right;
}

hyphens

html{
    hyphens: auto;
    hyphenate-limit-chars: 8;
}

display links in print

a[href]:after {
	content: ' (' attr(href) ')';
}

generated pagenumbers in a table of contents

See: https://pagedjs.org/documentation/-cross-references/#target-counter()

#toc a::after {
  content: "page: " target-counter(attr(href url), page);
}

Links

Paged Media CSS references:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Paged_Media

Using media queries: @media print, @media screen

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Printing

Paged.js documentation:

• https://pagedjs.org/documentation/

Other links:

• W3C CSS Print Community Group (launched in 2020, closed in December 2023)
• https://www.pagedmedia.org/library/ list of Javascript tools for pagination, hyphenation, baselines, kerning, font resizing, post-production, etc
• reload-in-place.js made by Nicolas Taffin, you're fingers will be so thankful for using this!!