Hi,

I wanted to put 2 lines in a footer, ie Line1<br>Line2. I'm pretty sure this isn't possible but just checking. If not does anyone have a hack to get around this. Either that or a way to put more than one space between content - if i put multiple spaces in between words, it takes out the multiple and just leaves one.

Try the white-space property, which allows you to disable white-space collapsing:

white-space: pre

You can embed a literal new-line character in a CSS string like this:

content: "Two\A lines"

Where \A is a hexadecimal character escape, equivalent to &#xA; in XML.

Thanks for that. \A didn't work, it just printed out "A", but \n worked.

Really? That's odd, as "\n" should only create a newline in a C/Java/Perl program, not in CSS!

Could you perhaps post an example of the CSS that you are using?

It is a p erl program that is printing to Prince.

@bottom-left {
			content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages) "\nPrinted: $date";
			vertical-align: top;
			text-align: left;
			font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
			font-size: 10px;
			white-space: pre;
		}

Ah, if it's a Perl program then it would need to print "\\A" in order to get "\A" in the CSS output.

Yep, that works

An interesting bug: "foo\A bar" works, but "foo\Abar" does not.

John Haugeland is http://fullof.bs/

Not a bug: \Ab or \AB is a two digit hexadecimal escape for U+00AB.

Good call. \0A, then.

John Haugeland is http://fullof.bs/

I am interesting if \a (lower case) would work or not?

Sorry to drag up an old post, but I am having similar issues.

I am trying to get multiple lines, but failing miserably. I'm coding in PHP, I have tried the following:

'\\A'
'\A'
"\A"
"\\A"
'\n'
"\n"
'\\n'
"\\n"

$head.=$moreInfo.'\A'.$custPo.'Phase PO#:'.$row['phasePo']

Any suggestions?

Never mind, I found the answer in a different post.
I forgot the "white-space:pre-line"
@page{
@top-left{
content: "'.$head.'";
white-space:pre-line
}
}