I have a list of large <div>
s, each of variable height, but fixed width. The list looks a bit like this:
1. Heading
This is a short paragraph. It doesn't contain very many sentences.
2. Heading
Now this paragraph, THIS one, is quite long. It could be over 10 lines in
length. It might be even longer. Now this paragraph is aimless and going
nowhere and I'm annoying the good folks on Stack Overflow because they might
actually be helping me, and reading this is boring.
----------------------------------- Page Break ----------------------------------
3. Heading
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse sapien
orci, fermentum ac pellentesque quis, pretium at odio. Fusce quis dignissim
nisi. Ut rhoncus tortor ut diam aliquam auctor ullamcorper vitae urna.
Pellentesque elementum urna sed quam vehicula et elementum orci accumsan.
Nullam feugiat tempor ipsum et rhoncus. Maecenas ultrices, sem a posuere
pharetra, mi lorem rhoncus dolor, ac consectetur mauris tortor quis nulla.
Mauris consequat tincidunt nibh, consectetur adipiscing erat vulputate ac.
----------------------------------- Page Break ----------------------------------
4. Heading
Sed magna mi, egestas non imperdiet id, interdum nec quam. Nullam et libero
a urna convallis congue ac ut tellus. Aliquam in erat metus. Sed tempus,
ipsum ut vehicula convallis, massa neque faucibus est, quis cursus dolor
feliset dolor. Vivamus ultrices odio purus, vitae condimentum mi. Aenean
lacus dui, pellentesque vestibulum pretium sed, cursus non metus. Praesent
quis velit a lacus commodo adipiscing. Donec sollicitudin arcu quis est
faucibus malesuada. Curabitur sem quam, accumsan sed tempor sed, tincidunt
imperdiet nisl. Fusce non malesuada elit. Donec dolor eros, lacinia ut tempus
dictum, mi elementum elementum feugiat, metus augue dapibus felis, eget
pharetra lectus elit quis sapien. Nulla ullamcorper, elit in sodales
tincidunt, purus nisi venenatis sem, sit amet blandit nisl lorem non velit.
Nullam vulputate, dui auctor consectetur pellentesque, est nibh vulputate
eros, non egestas ante nunc a dui. Donec porta mollis pharetra. Quisque ut
nisl turpis. Maecenas et sem a magna lacinia porta nec non nulla.
Vestibulum sed justo sit amet lorem consectetur auctor eu nec neque.
Curabitur dignissim pellentesque sollicitudin. Sed mattis arcu justo.
Nunc in felis elit.
I want to separate this list onto several "pages" with "page breaks", pagination, (each on the same HTML page, though), each of a fixed height. I do not want the long paragraphs to be split across pages, unless there's only one item on each page. How would I go about doing this? I'm thinking jQuery might be essential, which is fine, because I doubt it's possible in CSS alone.
I'm doing this because I want to turn it into a PDF and this seems the best way to do that.