[whatwg] HTML 5 should include a way to create custom page header & footer for printing.

Mon Oct 15 10:06:21 PDT 2012

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Mircea LUTIC <mircea_lutic at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > HTML 5 should include a way to create custom page header & footer for
> > printing.
> > These should allow to include images
> >
> > I think it should be something like
> > <html>
> > <head>
> >   <title><img src="logo.svg"/>My company software<br/>The best software on
> > the  planet</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > ...
> 
> This is not an HTML issue, but rather a CSS one.  And luckily, this 
> issue is already addressed: 
> <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#populating-margin-boxes>
> 
> I don't *think* this has been implemented in browsers yet, but it has 
> been in several HTML+CSS-based printing programs, like PrinceXML or 
> WeasyPrint.

As Tab says, this is mostly a CSS issue.

Note that you can create detailed headers/footers in HTML using <header> 
and <footer>, which could then be hidden for screen media and placed in a 
margin box for print media using CSS, once CSS supports flowing elements 
into particular boxes. (No idea if this is planned yet.)

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