Atsushi Nakamura wrote:
> Melinda,
>> This may be just a way of thinking, but
> I don't think authors would unintentionally place consecutive page breaks,
> but they will be intentional. Collapsing them would neglect author's intent
>> Authors would likely place "just" page breaks
> where they want page breaks to occur, since "page-break-after:always;"
> has a function on it's own, and normally would not think it would require
> some "magic".
>> If other tags (or styles) behave he same way, this would be a different
> story.
> However, consecutive <br>s do not collapse, consecutive <p>s do not
> collapse,
> and styles do not collapse. Under this condition, the behavior proposed
> seems strange.
To be the "devil's advocate", CSS *does* collapse margins between
elements, and you could consider page breaks as a special kind of
margin/whitespace separator.
So for two consecutive elements, the first with "page-break-after:
always" and the second with "page-break-before: always", would
result in a single page break, while other scenarios would result
in two breaks, e.g.:
before + before = 2 page breaks
before + after = 2 page breaks
after + before = 1 page break
after + after = 2 page breaks
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