August 5, 2001 - Content Rendering

Yehuda Shiran August 5, 2001
Content Rendering
Tips: August 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The LayoutRect behavior formats the page content itself. You need one LayoutRect per page. The LayoutRect element is defined inside the DeviceRect element. The content of each LayoutRect element is limited to one page. Once a page is filled, formatting jumps to the next page automatically. You need to define LayoutRect's style. Suppose we want the content portion of the page to have the following characteristics:

We can define a style, contentstyle, as follows:

&ltSTYLE TYPE="text/css">
.contentstyle
{
  width:5.5in;
  height:8in;
  margin:1in;
  background:white;   
  border:1 dashed gray;
}
&lt/STYLE>
We can use the LayoutRect elements to format any content. Examine what yesterday's tip looks like with the style above. Here is the HTML code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<?IMPORT NAMESPACE="IE" IMPLEMENTATION="#default">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
.contentstyle
{
  width:5.5in;
  height:8in;
  margin:1in;
  background:white;   
  border:1 dashed gray;
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<IE:LAYOUTRECT ID="layoutrect1"  CONTENTSRC="010804.html" CLASS="contentstyle" NEXTRECT="layoutrect2"/>
<IE:LAYOUTRECT ID="layoutrect2" CLASS="contentstyle"/>
</BODY>
</HTML>
For more information on print templates, go to Column 89, Print Templates, Part I.