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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>
CSS Paged Media Module Level 3
</title>
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<!--logo-->
<h1 class="p-name">CSS Paged Media Module Level 3</h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="w3c-working">[LONGSTATUS] <span class="dt-updated"><span class="value-title" title="[CDATE]">[DATE]</span></span></h2>
<dl>
<dt>This version:</dt>
<dd><a class="u-url" href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/</a></dd>
<!-- <dd><a class="u-url" href="[VERSION]">http://www.w3.org/TR/[YEAR]/WD-[SHORTNAME]-[CDATE]</a></dd> -->
<dt>Latest version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/">http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/</a></dd>
<dt>Editor’s Draft:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/</a></dd>
<dt>Previous version:</dt>
<dd><a rel="previous" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-page-20130314/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-page-20130314/</a></dd>
<dt>Issue Tracking:</dt>
<dd><a rel="issues" href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/13">http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/13</a>
<dt>Feedback:</dt>
<dd><a href="mailto:www-style@w3.org?subject=%5Bcss-page%5D%20feedback"
>www-style@w3.org</a>
with subject line “<kbd>[css-page]
<var>… message topic …</var></kbd>”
(<a rel="discussion" href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/"
>archives</a>)
<dt>Editors:</dt>
<dd class="p-author h-card vcard">
<span class="p-name fn">Melinda Grant</span>,
<span class="p-org org">Hewlett-Packard</span></dd>
<dd class="p-author h-card vcard">
<span class="p-name fn">Håkon Wium Lie</span>,
<span class="p-org org">Opera Software</span></dd>
<dd class="p-author h-card vcard">
<span class="p-name fn">Elika J. Etemad</span>,
<span class="p-org org">Mozilla</span></dd>
<dd class="p-author h-card vcard">
<span class="p-name fn">Simon Sapin</span>,
<span class="p-org org">Kozea</span></dd>
</dl>
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<hr title="Separator for header">
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="abstract">Abstract</h2>
<p>
<span class="p-summary">
This module describes the page model that partitions a flow into pages. It
builds on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html">Box model module</a> and introduces
and defines the page model and paged media. It adds functionality for
pagination, page margins, page size and orientation, headers and footers,
widows and orphans, and image orientation. Finally it extends generated content
to enable page numbering and running headers / footers. </span>
</p>
<!-- "Status of this document" -->
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="status">Status of this Document</h2>
<!--status-->
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="contents">Table of Contents</h2><!--begin-toc-->
<!--end-toc-->
<!-- "Introduction" -->
<h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
<p>Paged media (e.g., paper, transparencies, photo album pages, pages
displayed on computer screens as printed output simulations) differ from
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html#continuous-media-group">continuous media</a>
in that the content of the document is split into one or more discrete
static display surfaces. To handle pages, CSS3 Paged Media describes how:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#page-breaks">page breaks</a> are created and avoided;</li>
<li>the page properties such as size, orientation, margins, border, and
padding are specified;</li>
<li>headers and footers are established within the page margins;</li>
<li>content such as page counters are placed in the headers and footers; and</li>
<li>orphans and widows can be controlled.</li>
</ul>
<p>This module defines a <a href="#page-model">page model</a> that specifies how a
document is formatted within a rectangular area, called the
<a href="#page-box-page-rule">page box</a>, that has finite width and height.
<p>Although CSS3 does not specify how user agents transfer page boxes to sheets,
it does include certain mechanisms for telling user agents about the intended
page sheet <a href="#page-size">size and orientation</a>. In the general case,
CSS3 assumes that one page box will be transferred to one surface of similar
size.</p>
<p>All properties defined in this specification also accept the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#value-def-inherit">inherit</a>
keyword as their value, but for readability it has not been listed explicitly.
<h2 id="conformance">Conformance</h2>
<p>All of the text in this specification is normative except sections
explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. The keywords
"<em class="RFC2119">MUST</em>", "<em class="RFC2119">SHALL</em>",
"<em class="RFC2119">MUST NOT</em>", "<em class="RFC2119">SHALL NOT</em>",
"<em class="RFC2119">REQUIRED</em>", "<em class="RFC2119">SHOULD</em>",
"<em class="RFC2119">SHOULD NOT</em>", "<em class="RFC2119">RECOMMENDED</em>",
"<em class="RFC2119">MAY</em>", and "<em class="RFC2119">OPTIONAL</em>" when
used in this document are to be interpreted as described in <cite>RFC
2119</cite> [[!RFC2119]]. However, for readability, these words do not appear
in all uppercase letters in this specification.</p>
<p>Examples in this specification are introduced with the words "for example"
or are set apart from the normative text with <code>class="example"</code>,
like this:
<div class="example">
<p>This is an example of an informative example.</p>
</div>
<p>Informative notes begin with the word "Note" and are set apart from the
normative text with <code>class="note"</code>, like this:
<p class="note">Note, this is an informative note.</p>
<h2 id="page-terms">Page Terminology</h2>
<p>The following terminology and accompanying diagrams help to describe the
page model:</p>
<dl>
<dt id="page-sheet">Page sheet</dt>
<dd><img src="PageSheet.png" style="float: right;" alt="The corner of a page sheet with the non-printable area at the edge and printable area inside it"
height="148" width="194">The page sheet is one surface of the physical
medium. The illustration to the right shows a representation of the upper-left
corner of a page sheet.</dd>
<dt id="printable-area">Printable and non-printable areas</dt>
<dd>The non-printable area is the area of a page sheet that a physical device such
as a printer is not capable of marking reliably, usually due to the printer's
paper handling mechanism. This value is printer dependent and is usually a
small region along each edge of the page sheet. The printable area is the area
of page sheet that a printer <em>is</em> capable of marking reliably. The size
of the printable area is the size of the page sheet reduced by the size of the
non-printable area. A user agent may not know the dimensions of this area for a
particular printing device; but when its dimensions are known, user agents
<em class="RFC2119">MAY</em> adjust the formatting of the document so that
content falls within the printable area. How this adjustment is accomplished is
device dependent within the constraints expressed in the sections
<a href="#renderingpages">Rendering page boxes that do not fit a page sheet</a> and
<a href="#content-outside-box">Content outside the page box</a>.</dd>
<dt id="page-orientation">Page Orientation</dt>
<dd>The page orientation is defined by comparing the length of the edges of a
<a href="#page-box">page box</a>. The page box is a rectangle with two
perpendicular edges called the long edge and the short edge. The length of the
long edge is always greater than or equal to the length of the short edge. When
the page box is square, the two edges are of the same length and either can be
used as the long edge with the other being the short edge. This specification
defines page orientations of 'portrait' and 'landscape'.</dd>
<dt id="portrait">Portrait Orientation</dt>
<dd>A portrait page's height is greater than or equal to its width. Horizontal
elements are parallel to the short edge and vertical elements to the long edge.</dd>
<dt id="landscape">Landscape Orientation</dt>
<dd>A landscape page's width is greater than or equal to its height. Horizontal
elements are parallel to the long edge and vertical elements to the short edge.
<span class="note">Note that CSS3 makes no distinction between landscape and
reverse-landscape orientations. However, future versions of CSS may do so.
UAs should consider, when formatting for duplexed printing, the binding edge,
page progression, and ease of reading when choosing between landscape and
reverse-landscape renderings.</span>
</dd>
<dt id="duplex-printing">Duplex Printing</dt>
<dd>Duplex printing prints one page box per side of a page sheet and uses both
sides of the page sheet. This module provides no ability to specify whether a
document is duplex printed, but the concept of left and right pages is based on
the assumption that the document is duplex printed, regardless of whether or
not it actually is.</dd>
<dt id="binding-edge">Binding Edge</dt>
<dd>The binding edge is the edge of the page box that is toward the binding if the
material is bound. The binding edge often has a larger margin than the opposite
edge to provide for the space used by the binding. The binding edge can be any
of the four edges. However, page sheets are customarily bound so that the
binding edge of page boxes with portrait orientation is vertical. This module
provides no method to specify the binding edge. In duplex printing, the binding
edge is on opposite sides of the page box for the left and right pages.</dd>
<dt id="facing-pages">Facing Pages</dt>
<dd>Facing pages are two sequential pages such that when the document is duplex
printed they are on separate sheets of paper. Typically, the earlier page will
be the back side of one sheet and the later page will be the front side of
another. They are usually laid out so that the binding edges of facing pages
are vertical and adjacent when the pages are placed in their normal reading
orientation.</dd>
<dt><dfn id="left-page">Left Page</dfn></dt>
<dd>A page that would be on the left if it is part of a pair of facing pages as
typically laid out. Page layouts for documents using a left-to-right page
progression have the earlier of the facing pages on the left. Rules specific to
the left page can be specified using the '':left'' <i>page selector</i>.
</dd>
<dt><dfn id="right-page">Right Page</dfn></dt>
<dd>A page that would be on the right if it is part of a pair of facing pages as
typically laid out. Page layouts for documents using a right-to-left page
progression have the earlier of the facing pages on the right. Rules specific
to the right page can be specified using the '':right'' <i>page selector</i>.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2 id="page-model">The Page Model</h2>
<p>In the paged media formatting model, the document is transferred into one
or more page boxes. The <dfn id="page-box">page box</dfn> is a specialized CSS
box that maps to a rectangular print media surface, such as a page of paper.
It is roughly analogous to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#viewport">viewport</a>.
<img src="PageBox.png" style="float: right;" alt="" height="266" width="267">
<p>As with other CSS <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html">boxes</a>, a page box
consists of margin, border, padding, and content areas. The content and
margin areas of a page box have special functions:</p>
<p class="issue">
In CSS 2.1, both the page box and page area are simple rectangles.
Neither is a CSS box with margins, borders, and padding.
This CSS box should be distinct from the page box and page area,
which would be its margin area and content area, respectively.
Naming ideas?
<ul>
<li>The content area of a page box is called the <dfn id="page-area">page
area</dfn>. The content of the document is flowed into one or more page boxes.
The page area acts as a container for all the boxes generated by the root
element and its descendants that are laid out within a given page box. The
edges of the page area on the first page establish the rectangle that is the
initial <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details">containing block</a>
of the document.</li>
<li>The margin area of a page box is divided into
16 <dfn>page-margin boxes</dfn>.
Each page-margin box has its own margin, border, padding and content areas.
Page-margin boxes are typically used to display running headers and footers.</li>
</ul>
<p>The properties of a <i>page box</i> are determined by properties
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#declaration">declared</a> within the
<i>page context</i>, which is the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#x14">declaration block</a> of the
<code>@page</code> rule. Similarly the properties of a <i>page-margin box</i>
are determined by properties declared within its <i>margin context</i>.
Declarations in the page context can affect the page box and/or inherit
to the page-margin boxes, but they do not apply to or inherit into the
document's root element or other content.</p>
<p>The <i>containing block</i> of the page box is specified using the 'size'
property in the <i>page context</i>. The width and horizontal margins
of the page box are then calculated exactly as for a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#blockwidth">non-replaced
block element in normal flow</a>. [[!CSS21]] The height and vertical margins
of the page box are calculated analogously (instead of using the block height
formulas). In both cases if the values are over-constrained, instead of
ignoring any margins, the containing block is resized to coincide with the
margin edges of the page box.
<h3 id="painting">
Page Backgrounds and Painting Order</h3>
<p>When drawing a page of content, the page layers are painted in the
following painting order (bottommost first):
<ol>
<li>page background
<li>document canvas
<li>page borders
<li>document contents
<li>page-margin boxes
</ol>
<p>In the page model, the page background behaves similar to the root background:
its <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#background-painting-area"><i>background painting area</i></a>
is the entire page box, including its margins (regardless of 'background-clip').
Page backgrounds are anchored within the page box's padding area by default
(and honor 'background-origin' if the UA supports [[!CSS3BG]]).
However if 'background-attachment' is ''fixed''
then the image is positioned relative to the page box including its margins
(i.e. the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#background-positioning-area"><i>background positioning area</i></a>,
like the <i>background painting area</i>, is the page's margin box).
<p>The document canvas background is drawn as the page box's background:
by default its <i>background painting area</i> covers the page box's border box,
and for UAs that support [[!CSS3BG]], follows the 'background-clip' value specified on the root element.
It remains, however, positioned with respect to the root element
or page area as usual.
<p>
With respect to the page-margin boxes,
the document canvas, page borders, and all of the document contents
are treated as a single element with a <code>z-index</code> value of '0'
that establishes a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#x43">stacking context</a>
[[!CSS21]]:
the page-margin boxes never interleave with parts of the document content
or between the content and the canvas.
They may only paint in front of the document content
or behind the document canvas.
The page background is always painted underneath everything else.
<p>The 'z-index' property applies to page-margin boxes.
Since the 'position' property does not apply to page-margin boxes,
'z-index' always affects page-margin boxes as if they were positioned elements
regardless of the 'position' property's value.
Each page-margin boxes always establishes a stacking context.
<p>The default painting order,
or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/zindex.html">CSS2.1 Appendix E</a> "tree order",
of page-margin boxes with respect to each other is as follows:
<ol>
<li>''@top-left-corner''
<li>''@top-left''
<li>''@top-center''
<li>''@top-right''
<li>''@top-right-corner''
<li>''@right-top''
<li>''@right-middle''
<li>''@right-bottom''
<li>''@bottom-right-corner''
<li>''@bottom-right''
<li>''@bottom-center''
<li>''@bottom-left''
<li>''@bottom-left-corner''
<li>''@left-bottom''
<li>''@left-middle''
<li>''@left-top''
</ol>
<p class=note>
Start with ''@top-left-corner'', then go clockwise.
This order is arbitrary but can be overridden with 'z-index'.
It only has a visible effect when page-margin boxes overlap,
which should not happen in most cases.
<h3 id="content-outside-box">Content outside the page box</h3>
<p>When formatting content in the page model, some content may end up outside the
page box. For example, an element whose 'white-space' property has the value
'pre' can generate a box that is wider than the page box. As another example,
when boxes are positioned absolutely or relatively, they may end up in
"inconvenient" locations. For example, images may be placed on the edge of
the page box or 100,000 meters below the page box. </p>
<p>A specification for the exact formatting of such elements lies outside the
scope of this document. However, it is recommended that authors and user agents
observe the following general principles concerning content outside the page
box:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Content should be allowed slightly beyond the page box to allow pages
to "bleed".
<li><p>User agents <em class="RFC2119">SHOULD</em> avoid generating a large
number of content-empty pages to honor the positioning of elements (e.g.,
printing 100 blank pages is probably neither the author's nor the user's
intent).
A <dfn id="content-empty">Content-empty page</dfn> is a page box whose page
area contains no printable content other than backgrounds and/or borders. A
page box whose page area contains generated content, or content whose
visibility is 'hidden', or invisible content such as a zero-width space is
not a content-empty page. On the other hand, a page containing only a
background and/or borders and/or page-margin box content <em>is</em> a
content-empty page.
<p class="note">Note, however, that generating a small number of empty page
boxes is sometimes necessary to honor the forced-break values for
'page-break-before'/'break-before' and 'page-break-after'/'break-after'.
[[!CSS21]] [[!CSS3-BREAK]]</li>
<li><p>Authors <em class="RFC2119">SHOULD NOT</em> position elements in
inconvenient locations just to avoid rendering them. Instead:
<ul>
<li>To suppress box generation entirely, set the <span class="property">'display'</span> property to <span class="css">'none'</span>.</li>
<li>To make a box invisible, set the <span class="property">'visibility'</span>
property.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>This specification does not define how boxes positioned outside the page
box are handled. Possibilities include discarding them or creating page boxes
for them at the end of the document.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="progression">Page Progression</h3>
<p>CSS distinguishes between left pages and right pages on all documents,
whether they are printed duplex or not. Each left page is followed by a
right page and vice versa. Left and right pages can be styled differently
with the <a href="#left-right-first"><code>:left</code> and <code>:right</code>
pseudo-classes</a>.
<p>Whether the first page of a document is a left page or a right page
depends on the page progression of the document. The <dfn>page progression</dfn>
is the direction in which the printed pages of a document would be sequenced
when laid out side-to-side. For example, English and horizontally-set Japanese
typically progress from left to right, whereas Arabic and vertically-set
Japanese pages typically progress from right to left. In documents with
a left-to-right page progression the first page of the document is a right
page, and vice versa.</p>
<p>The page progression direction is determined as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>If text is laid out in horizontal lines, the page progression is the
same as the inline progression.</li>
<li>If text is laid out in vertical lines, the page progression is the
same as the block progression.</li>
</ul>
<p>If the UA supports the 'direction' and 'writing-mode' properties
from the CSS 3 Writing Modes Module [[CSS3-WRITING-MODES]], it must
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-writing-modes/#page-direction">determine</a>
whether the first page is a left or right page from the values of those
properties on the root element.</p>
<p>
To explicitly force a document to begin printing on a left or right page,
authors can specify a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-break/#break-before">'break-before'</a> value
that that propagates a page break to the root. [[!CSS3-BREAK]]
The UA must suppress the first (empty) page(s) in this case
(and the <code>:first</code> pseudo-class matches the first printed page).
<div class="example">
<pre>
html { break-before: always }
</pre>
<p>
For an HTML document with a left-to-right page progression,
the above style rule will cause the first page of the document
to print on a ':left' page
</p>
<pre>
html { break-before: left }
</pre>
<p>
For an HTML document,
the above style rule will cause the first page of the document
to print on a ':left' page,
regardless of the page progression.
</p>
</div>
<h2 id="page-selector-and-context">
Page Selectors and the Page Context</h2>
<h3 id="at-page-rule"><a id="page-box-page-rule"></a>
The @page Rule</h3>
<p>Authors can specify various aspects of a page box,
such as its dimensions, orientation, and margins,
within an ''@page'' rule.
''@page'' rules are allowed
wherever <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">rule-sets</a> are allowed.
An ''@page'' rule consists of the keyword ''@page'',
an <em class="RFC2119">OPTIONAL</em> comma-separated list of
<a href="#page-selectors">page selectors</a>
and a block of declarations
(said to be in the <dfn id="page-context">page context</dfn>).
An ''@page'' rule can also contain other at-rules,
interleaved between declarations.
The current level of this specification
only allows <a href="#margin-at-rules">margin at-rules</a> inside ''@page''.
<p>''@page'' rules without a selector list apply to every page.
Other ''@page'' rules apply to pages that <i>match</i>
at least one of their selectors.
Properties declared within the page context apply to the page box.
<p>If an error is encountered during the processing of a declaration block within
a page or a margin context, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#parsing-errors">Rules for handling parsing errors</a>
apply; that is, valid declarations within the block are applied.</p>
<h3 id="page-selectors">Page selectors</h3>
<p>A <dfn id="page-selector">page selector</dfn> is made of
either a <i>page type selector</i>
or a <i>page pseudo-class</i>,
followed by zero or more additional <i>page pseudo-classes</i>.
No whitespace is allowed between components of a selector.
The <i title="page_selector">page selector grammar</i>
and examples can be found below.
<p>A <i>page selector</i> is said to <dfn>match</dfn> a given page if and only if
all of its components match the page.
<p>A <dfn>page type selector</dfn> is
a case-sensitive <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-identifier">CSS identifier</a> [[!CSS21]].
It <i>matches</i> pages of the <a href="#using-named-pages">named page type</a>
generated by the 'page' property.
<span id="page-selector-syntax-restrict">
A page type name of ''auto''
(<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#characters">ASCII case-insensitive</a>)
does not make the rule invalid,
but <em class="RFC2119">MUST</em> never match.
</span>
<p>A <dfn>page pseudo-class</dfn> is <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#characters">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
and has the same syntax as <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#pseudo-classes">pseudo-classes</a> in regular Selectors. [[!SELECT]]
The various <i>page pseudo-classes</i> are defined below.
<h4 id="spread-pseudos"><a id="left-right-first"></a>
Spread pseudo-classes: '':left'', '':right''</h4>
<p>When printing double-sided documents,
left and right pages are often formatted differently.
This can be expressed by using the '':left'' and '':right'' page pseudo-classes.
<p>All pages are automatically classified by user agents
as either left pages or right pages,
based on <a href="#progression">page progression</a>.
The <dfn>'':left''</dfn> and <dfn>'':right''</dfn> pseudo-classes
2B2
only <i>match</i> <i title="left page">left</i> or <i title="right page">right pages</i>,
respectively.
<div class="example">
The following example creates left and right binding edges using these pseudo-classes:
<pre>
@page :left {
margin-left: 3cm;
margin-right: 4cm;
}
@page :right {
margin-left: 4cm;
margin-right: 3cm;
}
</pre>
</div>
<p>If different declarations have been given for left and right pages, the user
agent <em class="RFC2119">MUST</em> honor these declarations even if the user
agent does not transfer the page boxes to left and right sheets (i.e., a
printer that only prints on one side of the medium must nevertheless produce
correctly formatted output).</p>
<div class="note">
<p>
<em><strong>Note.</strong>
Adding declarations to the '':left'' or '':right'' pseudo-class
does not necessarily influence whether the document
comes out of the printer double- or single-sided
(which is outside the scope of this specification).</em>
</p>
</div>
<h4 id="first-pseudo">
First-page pseudo-class: '':first''</h4>
<p>The <dfn>'':first''</dfn> pseudo-class <i title="match">matches</i>
the first printed page of a document.
<div class="example">
<pre>
@page { margin: 2cm } /* All margins set to 2cm */
@page :first {
margin-top: 10cm /* Top margin on first page 10cm */
}
</pre>
</div>
<h4 id="blank-pseudo">
Blank-page pseudo-class: '':blank''</h4>
<p>The <dfn>'':blank''</dfn> pseudo-class <i title="match">matches</i>
<i title="content-empty page">content-empty pages</i>
that appear as a result of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-break/#forced-breaks">forced page breaks</a>.
<div class="note">
<p>Only the ''left'', ''right'', ''recto'' and ''verso'' values
of the 'break-before' and 'break-after' properties
can generate pages that match '':blank''.
</div>
<div class="example">
<p>In this example, forced page break may occur before <code>h1</code> elements.
<pre>
h1 { break-before: left }
@page :blank {
@top-center { content: "This page is intentionally left blank" }
}
</pre>
</div>
<p>
A page matched by '':blank'' can also be matched
by other page pseudo-classes.
<div class="example">
<p>If headers have been specified on all right pages, a blank right
page will be matched by both <code>:blank</code>
and <code>:right</code>. Therefore, margin boxes set on right pages
will have to be removed unless they are wanted on blank pages. Here is
an example where the top center header is removed from blank pages,
while the page number remains:
<pre>
h1 { break-before: left }
@page :blank {
@top-center { content: none }
}
@page :right {
@top-center { content: "Preliminary edition" }
@bottom-center { content: counter(page) }
}
</pre>
<p>Due to the higher <i>specificity</i> of <code>:blank</code>
over <code>:right</code>, the top center header is removed even
if <code>content: none</code> comes before <code>content: "Preliminary
edition"</code>.
</div>
<div class="note">
<p><em><strong>Note.</strong> Future versions of CSS may include other page
pseudo-classes.</em></p>
</div>
<h3 id="syntax-page-selector">@page rule grammar</h3>
<p>The syntax for the @page rule is a specialization of the generic at-rule
defined by CSS 2.1. This grammar extends the at-rule syntax to allow @page rules
nested inside @media rules. User agents <em class="RFC2119">MUST</em> adhere
to the following grammar:</p>
<p>See [[!CSS21]], Section 4.1.1 and Appendix G for the expansion of missing
productions:</p>
<p id="specializatons-of-ATKEYWORD">
All new lexical tokens are specializations of the ATKEYWORD lexical token:</p>
<pre class="lexical">
PAGE_SYM ::= "@page"
TOPLEFTCORNER_SYM ::= "@top-left-corner"
TOPLEFT_SYM ::= "@top-left"
TOPCENTER_SYM ::= "@top-center"
TOPRIGHT_SYM ::= "@top-right"
TOPRIGHTCORNER_SYM ::= "@top-right-corner"
BOTTOMLEFTCORNER_SYM ::= "@bottom-left-corner"
BOTTOMLEFT_SYM ::= "@bottom-left"
BOTTOMCENTER_SYM ::= "@bottom-center"
BOTTOMRIGHT_SYM ::= "@bottom-right"
BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER_SYM ::= "@bottom-right-corner"
LEFTTOP_SYM ::= "@left-top"
LEFTMIDDLE_SYM ::= "@left-middle"
LEFTBOTTOM_SYM ::= "@left-bottom"
RIGHTTOP_SYM ::= "@right-top"
RIGHTMIDDLE_SYM ::= "@right-middle"
RIGHTBOTTOM_SYM ::= "@right-bottom"
<dfn>media</dfn> :
MEDIA_SYM S* medium [ COMMA S* medium ]* LBRACE S* [ <i>page_rule</i> | ruleset ]* '}' S*
;
<dfn id="syntax-prod-page">page_rule</dfn> :
PAGE_SYM S* <i>page_selector_list</i> '{' S* <i>page_body</i> '}' S*
;
<dfn>page_selector_list</dfn> :
[ <i>page_selector</i> S* [ ',' <i>page_selector</i> S* ]* ]?
;
<dfn>page_selector</dfn> :
<i>pseudo_page</i>+ | IDENT <i>pseudo_page</i>*
;
<dfn id="syntax-prod-pseudo-page">pseudo_page</dfn> :
':' [ "left" | "right" | "first" | "blank" ]
;
<dfn>page_body</dfn> : /* Can be empty */
declaration? [ ';' S* <i>page_body</i> ]? |
<i>page_margin_box</i> <i>page_body</i>
;
<dfn id="syntax-prod-margin">page_margin_box</dfn> :
<i>margin_sym</i> S* '{' S* declaration? [ ';' S* declaration? ]* '}' S*
;
<dfn id="syntax-prod-margin-sym">margin_sym</dfn> :
TOPLEFTCORNER_SYM |
TOPLEFT_SYM |
TOPCENTER_SYM |
TOPRIGHT_SYM |
TOPRIGHTCORNER_SYM |
BOTTOMLEFTCORNER_SYM |
BOTTOMLEFT_SYM |
BOTTOMCENTER_SYM |
BOTTOMRIGHT_SYM |
BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER_SYM |
LEFTTOP_SYM |
LEFTMIDDLE_SYM |
LEFTBOTTOM_SYM |
RIGHTTOP_SYM |
RIGHTMIDDLE_SYM |
RIGHTBOTTOM_SYM
;
</pre>
<div class="example">
<p>The following are examples of page selectors (declaration block intentionally
left blank)</p>
<pre>
@page { ... }
@page :left { ... }
@page :right { ... }
@page LandscapeTable { ... }
@page CompanyLetterHead:first { ... } /* identifier and pseudo page. */
@page:first { ... }
@page toc, index { ... }
@page :blank:first { ... }
</pre>
<p>The following are examples of page-margin boxes
where the declaration blocks are intentionally left blank.</p>
<pre>
@page {
@top-left { ... /* document name */ }
@bottom-center { ... /* page number */}
}
@page :left { @left-middle { ... /* page number in left margin */ }}
@page :right{ @right-middle { ... /* page number in right margins of right pages */}}
@page :left { @bottom-left-corner { ... /* left page numbers */ }}
@page :right { @bottom-right-corner { ... /* right page numbers */ }}
@page :first { @bottom-left-corner { ... /* empty footer on 1st page */ }
@bottom-right-corner { ... /* empty footer */ } }
</pre>
</div>
<h3 id="cascading-and-page-context">Cascading in the page context</h3>
<p>Declarations in page and margin contexts <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html">cascade</a> just like declarations in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">rule sets</a>.</p>
<p>The <dfn>specificity</dfn> of page a selector is computed in a manner
analogous to the computations defined in
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html">Selectors</a> module:
<ul>
<li>Count the number of page type names (= <var>f</var>)
<p class="note">
Given the syntax of page seletors, <var>f</var> can only ever be 0 or 1.
<li>Count the number of ':first' or ':blank' pseudo-classes (= <var>g</var>)
<li>Count the number of ':left' or ':right' pseudo-classes (= <var>h</var>)
</ul>
<p class="note">
Note: Repeated occurrences of the same pseudo-classes are allowed
and do increase specificity.
<p>
Due to storage limitations,
implementations may have limitations on
the size of <var>f</var>, <var>g</var>, or <var>h</var>.
If so, values higher than the limit must be clamped to that limit,
and not overflow.
<p>
Specificities are compared by comparing the three components in order
(<var>f</var>, <var>g</var>, <var>h</var>):
the specificity with a larger <var>f</var> value is more specific;
if the two <var>f</var> values are tied,
then the two <var>g</var> values are compared, etc.
If all the values are tied, the two specificities are equal.
<div class="example">
<p>Some page specificity calculation examples follow:</p>
<pre>
@page { } /* specificity = (0,0,0) */
@page :left { } /* specificity = (0,0,1) */
@page :first { } /* specificity = (0,1,0) */
@page :blank:left { } /* specificity = (0,1,1) */
@page artsy { } /* specificity = (1,0,0) */
@page artsy:left { } /* specificity = (1,0,1) */
@page artsy:first { } /* specificity = (1,1,0) */
</pre>
</div>
<div class="example">
<p>Consider the following usage example:</p>
<pre>
@page :left {
margin-left: 4cm;
}
@page {
margin-left: 3cm;
}
</pre>
<p>Due to the higher specificity of the pseudo-class selector,
the left margin on left pages will be 4cm and all other pages
(the right-facing pages) will have a left margin of 3cm.
</div>
<div class="example">
<p>In this example, the higher specificity of the green rules wins over the red
rule.
Therefore the first page will have blue text in the top-left page-margin box
and green text in the top-right page-margin box,
while subsequent pages will have red text in the page-margin boxes.</p>
<pre>
@page :first {
color: green;
@top-left {
content: "foo";
color: blue;
}
@top-right {
content: "bar";
}
}
@page { color: red;
@top-center {
content: "Page " counter(page);
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<div class="example">
<p>Page contexts cascade, so the following stylesheet would style pages with 25
millimeter margins and 14 point type in the page-margin boxes:</p>
<pre>
@page { margin: 25mm;}
@page { font-size: 14pt;}
</pre>
</div>
<h2 id="margin-boxes">Page-Margin Boxes</h2>
<p>Page-margin boxes are boxes within the page margin that,
like pseudo-elements, can contain generated content.
<p>Page-margin boxes can be used to create page headers and footers,
which are portions of the page set aside for supplementary information
such as the page number or document title.
<div class="example">
<p>Typically, a <dfn>page header</dfn> is located at the top of the page
in documents with a predominately horizontal writing direction
and on the side opposite the <a href="#binding-edge">binding edge</a>
for documents with a predominately vertical writing direction.
One possible design of page headers for horizontally written documents uses the
''@top-left-corner'', ''@top-left'', ''@top-center'', ''@top-right'' and ''@top-right-corner''
page-margin boxes.
Another design, for vertically written documents, could use the
''@right-top'', ''@right-middle'', and ''@right-bottom'' page-margin boxes
for <a href="#right-page">right facing pages</a> and
''@left-top'', ''@left-middle'', and ''@left-bottom''
for <a href="#left-page">left facing pages</a>.
<p>The <dfn>page footer</dfn> is typically at
the opposite end of the page from the page header.
For example, the design of a horizontally written document with a page header
at the top of the page could use the
''@bottom-left-corner'', ''@bottom-left'', ''@bottom-center'', ''@bottom-right'' and ''@bottom-right-corner''
page-margin boxes as the page footer.
The design of a vertically written document could use
the page-margin boxes of the binding edge of the page for the page footer.
</div>
<p>Page-margin boxes are positioned with respect to the page area
and are independent of page orientation,
for example the top page-margin boxes are above the page area
in both portrait and landscape orientation.
The various page-margin boxes are defined
and illustrated in the diagram below:
<table id="margin-box-def" class="data" summary="defintion of each of the page-margin boxes">
<caption>Table 1 Page-Margin Box Definitions</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Box</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Placement</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr id="top-margin-boxes-def">
<th id="top-left-corner-box-def">top-left-corner</th>
<td>a fixed-size box defined by the intersection of the top and left margins of the
page box</td>
<td><img src="TopLeftCornerBox.png" alt="the top left corner box with margin, border, and padding, nested within intersection of the page's top and left margins"
height="47" width="181"></td>
</tr>
<tr id="top-left-box-def">
<th>top-left</th>
<td>a variable-width box filling the top page margin between the top-left-corner
and top-center page-margin boxes</td>
<td><img src="TopLeftMarginBox.png" alt="the top left box with margin, border, and padding, nested in the page's top margin next to the top left corner box"