table page-break-inside has no effect

[rlauriston]

I followed the instructions in Features > Tables > More About Tables > Setting Page Breaks for Table Rows and set page-break-inside for Medium: print to "avoid."

Tables are still breaking across pages. Suggestions?

Flare 6.1. PDF target.

[NorthEast]

Tables are still breaking across pages. Suggestions?

Do you mean tables or table rows?
Tables will still break across pages, it just won't break in the middle of a table row.

Also, double-check that the target is using the print medium (in Advanced tab).

[rlauriston]

Oh, of course. So what I want is probably page-break-inside:avoid in the table style properties.

[rlauriston]

For future refrence, I created a table.nobreak class wtih page-break-inside set to avoid, and it's working, but not if the table tags are wrapped in p tags.

[LTinker68]

For future refrence, I created a table.nobreak class wtih page-break-inside set to avoid, and it's working, but not if the table tags are wrapped in p tags.

If you mean you have a paragraph inside a table cell, then it doesn't work because the paragraph tag is closer to the text, so its style definition overrides the style definition of the td tag, which is inheriting from the tr tag which inherits from the table tag. If you want this to also work when a paragraph is inside a table cell, you'll have to create the complex selector shown below. To do that, open the topic stylesheet in the Internal Text Editor and type what's written below.

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td p {
   page-break-inside:avoid;
}

[Patt]

I set my table style to page-break-inside: avoid and I also added the td.p {page-break-inside: avoid;} for those cases where my table cells have p tags in them. But the table row still breaks at a page break. I would love to figure this out because we have hundreds of tables and it requires a lot of post-processing. Any suggestions on what I might be missing?

Thanks,
Patt

[Andrew]

I set my table style to page-break-inside: avoid and I also added the td.p {page-break-inside: avoid;} for those cases where my table cells have p tags in them. But the table row still breaks at a page break. I would love to figure this out because we have hundreds of tables and it requires a lot of post-processing. Any suggestions on what I might be missing?

Thanks,
Patt

Is this a Word document, or a PDF? For PDFs, Ltinker68's fix should work. If it's Word, no amount of page-break-inside: avoid will work; it's one of the things that's broken in Word output.

[Patt]

Andrew, thanks for your response. It is a Word output. That confirms what I was thinking - that this must be a bug.

Patt

[lchid71]

Try this:

Open the table stylesheet that you're using for the table.
Click the General tab.
Click the Advanced button.
In the Breaks window, adjust your Widows & Orphans to 0. However, you may be able to leave the Orphans at default.
Click OK.