Controlling Page Breaks
Browsers can show very long pages in a single window thanks to the scroll bar. When visitors go to print a page, the contents of particularly long pages must be divided to fit on a given paper size. CSS lets you control where those page breaks should occur.
To control page breaks before elements:
In the style rule, type page-break-before: when or page-break-after:when, where when is one of always (so that page breaks always occur before/after the selected elements), avoid (so that page breaks only occur before/after the selected elements when absolutely necessary), or auto (to let the browser decide).
To keep elements from being divided between two pages:
In the style rule, type page-break-inside: avoid.
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