HTML book-like pagination

Question

How can I split the content of a HTML file in screen-sized chunks to \"paginate\" it in a WebKit browser?

Each \"page\" should show a complete amount of text. This

Answer 1

There is several ways this could be done. If every line is in its own element all you have to do is to check if one of it's edges goes outside of the view (either the browsers, or the "book page").

If you want to know how many "pages" there is going to be in advance, just temporary move them into the view and get what line a page ends. This could potentially be slow because of that page reflow is needed for the browser to know where anything is.

Otherwise I think that you could use the HTML5 canvas element to measure text and / or draw text.

Some info on that here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Drawing_text_using_a_canvas http://uupaa-js-spinoff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/uupaa-excanvas.js/demo/8_2_canvas_measureText.html