Split text into pages and present separately (HTML5)

Question

Let\'s say we have a long text like Romeo & Juliet and we want to present this in a simple ereader (no animations, only pages and custom font-size). What approaches exis

Answer 1

See my answer to Wrap text every 2500 characters in a for pagination using PHP or javascript. I ended up with http://jsfiddle.net/Eric/WTPzn/show

Quoting the original post:

Just set your HTML to:

...

Add some css for pages:

#target {
    white-space: pre-wrap; /* respect line breaks */
}
.individualPage {
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding: 5px;    
}

And then use the following code:

var contentBox = $('#target');
//get the text as an array of word-like things
var words = contentBox.text().split(' ');

function paginate() {
    //create a div to build the pages in
    var newPage = $('
');
    contentBox.empty().append(newPage);

    //start off with no page text
    var pageText = null;
    for(var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
        //add the next word to the pageText
        var betterPageText = pageText ? pageText + ' ' + words[i]
                                      : words[i];
        newPage.text(betterPageText);

        //Check if the page is too long
        if(newPage.height() > $(window).height()) {
            //revert the text
            newPage.text(pageText);

            //and insert a copy of the page at the start of the document
            newPage.clone().insertBefore(newPage);

            //start a new page
            pageText = null;
        } else {
            //this longer text still fits
            pageText = betterPageText;             
        }
    }    
}

$(window).resize(paginate).resize();