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<head>
<title>CSS Test: forced page breaks</title>
<link rel="author" title="Tom Clancy" href="mailto:tclancy@revenution.com"/>
<meta name="assert" content="A page break MUST occur in the vertical margin between block boxes if, among the 'page-break-after' and 'page-break-before' properties of all the elements generating boxes that meet at this margin, there is at least one with the value 'always', 'left', or 'right'."/>
<meta name="flags" content="paged" />
<style type="text/css">
@page {
counter-increment: page;
margin: 7%;
@top-right {
content: content: "Page " counter(page);
}
}
@page :first {
@top-center {
content: "This test requires 7 pages";
}
}
.breakBefore {page-break-before: always;}
.breakAfter {page-break-after: always;}
.breakBeforeLeft {page-break-before: left;}
.breakBeforeRight {page-break-before: right;}
.avoidBefore { page-break-before: avoid; }
.avoidAfter { page-break-after: avoid; }
.avoidInside { page-break-inside: avoid; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="avoidInside avoidAfter">
<p>This test requires 7 pages.</p>
<p class="breakBeforeLeft avoidAfter">When printed, this sentence should appear by itself on page 2.</p>
</div>
<p class="breakBefore breakAfter">This sentence should appear by itself on page 3.</p>
<p class="breakBefore">This sentence should appear on page 4.</p>
<p class="breakAfter">This sentence should also appear on page 4.</p>
<p class="avoidBefore avoidAfter">This sentence should appear by itself on page 5.</p>
<p class="breakBeforeRight">This sentence should appear by itself on page 7. (Page 6 must be blank.)</p>
</body>
</html>