Rails: WickedPDF: Page Breaks

Question

In my Ruby (1.9.2) Rails (3.0.x) I would like to render a web page as PDF using wicked_pdf, and I would like to control where the page breaks are. My CSS code to control pag

Answer 1

Make sure that the stylesheet link tag includes media='print" or media='all' if you are using an external stylesheet:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'retailers_pdf',media: 'all' %>

or

<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'retailers_pdf',media: 'print' %>

otherwise wicked_pdf will not pick it up.

Also note that if you are in the middle of a table or div with a border, that the page-break attributes will not work. In this case, it's time to break out jQuery and start splitting things up. This answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13394466/2016616 has a good snippet for position measurement. I am working on clean and repeatable table-splitting code and will post it when I have finished it.