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<head>
<title>CSS Test: page-break-before initial value</title>
<link rel="author" title="Tom Clancy" href="mailto:tclancy@revenution.com"/>
<meta name="flags" content="paged" />
<meta name="assert" content="The initial value of the 'page-break-before' property is 'auto', which neither forces nor forbids a page break before boxes."/>
<style type="text/css">
@page {
margin: 7%;
}
html, body {
height:100%;
line-height:1;
}
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
page-break-before: inherit;
}
div#one {height: 20%;}
div#two {
height: 80%;
margin-bottom: -4em;
}
p {
width: 1em;
color: gray;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="one">This test produces two pages on paged media.</div>
<div id="two">This text appears on the first page.
<!-- Thus proving that a page break is not forced between boxes -->
The dummy text below this will flow onto a second page.</div>
<!-- Thus proving that a page break is not forbidden before boxes -->
<p>aaa<br />
bbb<br />
ccc<br />
ddd<br />
eee<br />
fff<br />
ggg<br />
</p>
</body>
</html>