How to deal with page breaks when printing a large HTML table
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
table { page-break-inside:auto }
tr { page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:auto }
thead { display:table-header-group }
tfoot { display:table-footer-group }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>heading</th></tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr><td>notes</td></tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>x</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>x</td>
</tr>
<!-- 500 more rows -->
<tr>
<td>x</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Note: when using the page-break-after:always for the tag it will create a page break after the last bit of the table, creating an entirely blank page at the end every time! To fix this just change it to page-break-after:auto. It will break correctly and not create an extra blank page.
<html>
<head>
<style>
@media print
{
table { page-break-after:auto }
tr { page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:auto }
td { page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:auto }
thead { display:table-header-group }
tfoot { display:table-footer-group }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
....
</body>
</html>
Expanding from Sinan Ünür solution:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
table { page-break-inside:auto }
div { page-break-inside:avoid; } /* This is the key */
thead { display:table-header-group }
tfoot { display:table-footer-group }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>heading</th></tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr><td>notes</td></tr>
</tfoot>
<tr>
<td><div>Long<br />cell<br />should'nt<br />be<br />cut</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div>Long<br />cell<br />should'nt<br />be<br />cut</div></td>
</tr>
<!-- 500 more rows -->
<tr>
<td>x</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
It seems that page-break-inside:avoid in some browsers is only taken in consideration for block elements, not for cell, table, row neither inline-block.
If you try to display:block the TR tag, and use there page-break-inside:avoid, it works, but messes around with your table layout.
None of the answers here worked for me in Chrome. AAverin on GitHub has created some useful Javascript for this purpose and this worked for me:
Just add the js to your code and add the class 'splitForPrint' to your table and it will neatly split the table into multiple pages and add the table header to each page.