files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/page-break-inside/index.md
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[!WARNING] This property has been replaced by the {{cssxref("break-inside")}} property.
The page-break-inside CSS property adjusts page breaks inside the current element.
{{InteractiveExample("CSS Demo: page-break-inside")}}
page-break-inside: auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
<div>
<p>
The effect of this property can be noticed when the document is being
printed or a preview of a print is displayed.
</p>
<button id="print-btn">Show Print Preview</button>
<div class="box-container">
<div class="box">Content before the property</div>
<div class="box" id="example-element">Content with 'page-break-inside'</div>
<div class="box">Content after the property</div>
</div>
</div>
.box {
border: solid #5b6dcd 5px;
background-color: #5b6dcd;
margin: 10px 0;
padding: 5px;
}
#example-element {
border: solid 5px #ffc129;
background-color: #ffc129;
color: black;
}
@media print {
#example-element {
height: 25cm;
}
}
const btn = document.getElementById("print-btn");
btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
window.print();
});
/* Keyword values */
page-break-inside: auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
/* Global values */
page-break-inside: inherit;
page-break-inside: initial;
page-break-inside: revert;
page-break-inside: revert-layer;
page-break-inside: unset;
auto
avoid
The page-break-inside property is now a legacy property, replaced by {{cssxref("break-inside")}}.
For compatibility reasons, page-break-inside should be treated by browsers as an alias of break-inside. This ensures that sites using page-break-inside continue to work as designed. A subset of values should be aliased as follows:
| page-break-inside | break-inside |
|---|---|
auto | auto |
avoid | avoid |
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{{csssyntax}}
<div class="page">
<p>This is the first paragraph.</p>
<section class="list">
<span>A list</span>
<ol>
<li>one</li>
<!-- <li>two</li> -->
</ol>
</section>
<ul>
<li>one</li>
<!-- <li>two</li> -->
</ul>
<p>This is the second paragraph.</p>
<p>This is the third paragraph, it contains more text.</p>
<p>
This is the fourth paragraph. It has a little bit more text than the third
one.
</p>
</div>
.page {
background-color: #8cffa0;
height: 90px;
width: 200px;
columns: 1;
column-width: 100px;
}
.list,
ol,
ul,
p {
break-inside: avoid;
}
p {
background-color: #8ca0ff;
}
ol,
ul,
.list {
margin: 0.5em 0;
display: block;
background-color: orange;
}
p:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
{{EmbedLiveSample("Avoiding_page_breaks_inside_elements", 400, 160)}}
{{Specifications}}
{{Compat}}