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Author Topic: HTMLBox Question  (Read 9181 times)
Gary C.
Posts: 109
« on: June 28, 2011, 04:13:46 pm »
Hi

I need to be able to produce a report (it is actually a product technical specification) and it will contain text formatted as html.

The HTMLBox works great but does not span pages - most of the specifications though have more than a page worth of text.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to possible ways to work around this?

Thanks

Gary
Alex G.
Four Js
Posts: 148
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 05:10:15 pm »
Hi Gary,
If you cut the HTML document into smaller chunks (for example have each paragraph start a new chunk) and output each of these as a separate HTMLBox then it will appear as one document and a page break will appear whenever a chunk as a whole doesn't fit the page anymore. The potential whitespace at the bottom of a page will be smaller if the chunks are smaller. If the document data is stored in a 4GL variable (rather than using a url pointing to a file)  then the splitting loop can be written in 4GL. As a start you could split at any P,BR, H1, H2,..,OL,TABLE,.. element. You can do this using the XML functions in case it is a XML document and otherwise use the string functions. Then the fragments are surrounded by "<HTML><BODY>" and shipped in a PRINT statement. If you have long tables or item lists then these may produce large gaps or the fragments may not fit on the page at all. In any case I will ask a request for enhancement to be filed for this.
Regards,
Alex
Christine R.
Four Js
Posts: 406
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 05:19:52 pm »
Hello,

The following request has been registered in our database for that:
#20535 : Having the possibility for HTMLBox to span pages.

Best regards,

Christine HEIM-REBIERE
Four J's Support Team
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