About Top page
@bottom { content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages) } }This rule will generate page footers such as "Page 1 of 89".This example shows a header as might be found in a textbook. The HTML and PDF are both available. This is a small part of a larger example in our Prince samples repository.Fancy headersThis example demonstrates a more complete headers style. It uses generated content to print page numbers, the chapter number and title and the section number and title using different styles for left and right pages. It also prints an underline under the header. @page { font-family: Times, Serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 2cm; margin-bottom: 2cm; margin-inside: 3.5cm; margin-outside: 2.5cm; } @page body:left { @top-left { content: counter(page); vertical-align: bottom; } @top-right { content: "Chapter " counter(chapter) ": " string(chapter); vertical-align: bottom; } } @page body:right { @top-right { content: counter(page); vertical-align: bottom; } @top-left { content: counter(chapter) "." counter(section) " " string(section); vertical-align: bottom; } } @page body { border-top: thin black solid; } @page body:first { margin-top: 25%; @top-left { content: normal; } @top-right { content: normal; } border: none; } @page body:blank { @top-left { content: normal; } @top-right { content: normal; } border: none; } body { font-family: Times, Serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0.5cm 0cm; } div.body { page: body; } div.body h1 { break-before: right; prince-page-group: start; string-set: chapter content(); counter-increment: chapter; counter-reset: section; } div.body h1::before { content: "Chapter " counter(chapter) ": "; } div.body h2 { string-set: section content(); counter-increment: section; } div.body h2::before { content: counter(chapter) "." counter(section) " "; }The main content area is 2.5cm from the page's edge on all sides. On the left and right this is a margin of 2.5cm and on the top and bottom it's 2cm of margin and 0.5cm of padding. This places the bottom border of the @top page region 0.5cm from the main content area, enough to avoid making it look crowded. The header text has the vertical-align: bottom property to ensure that it appears immediately above the border — the border is made to look
Key features of the Top page that are enabled through these drivers include:
- Force page scroll position to top at page refresh in HTML
- Home Page Wallpapers - Top Free Home Page Backgrounds
- Top Landing Page Website Inspiration - One Page Love
- Refresh page on mobile by dragging down at top of page - Mozilla
- On top of the page or at top of the page - UsingEnglish.com
- at the top of the page vs on the top of page - TextRanch
- on top of the pages vs on the top of the pages - TextRanch
Will try to create page regions of the correct sizes. If you need to create boxes of specific sizes you may need to use only a single box (eg: @top) and use the content property to place elements with specific sizes in it.Note that in the above Page regions figure, Prince leaves space for @top-right and @left-bottom boxes because their counterparts (@top-left and @left-top respectively) have been defined. This keeps the @top and @left centered along the top and side of the page respectively.The page-margin boxes @top, @top-left or @top-right can be used to create running page headers, and the page-margin boxes @bottom, @bottom-left or @bottom-right are useful for page footers (see Page Headers and Footers).The page region @prince-overlay is a special region, overlaying all of the page area. A typical use is for creating watermarks on all pages of the document (see Watermarks).The page region @footnote is placed by default at the foot of the page area and contains the footnotes (see Footnotes). Note that if there are no footnotes on a page, the footnote area will not be displayed on that page at all.Many CSS properties can be applied to page regions:All of the margin, border, padding and background properties can be used to style page regions.The vertical-align property can be applied to any page region to vertically align its content.When a page region contains generated content, many inline style properties such as color and font can be applied to style the generated content.The @footnote area can be positioned other than its default position (see Styling and behavior of footnotes and Sidenotes). All other page regions cannot be moved - their position is defined by the page margins.Generated content in page regionsWe have already shown an example of using the page counter to print the page number at the bottom of each page, this is one example of generated content. The page counter is predefined and starts at 1; it increments automatically for each new page. (Note that the page counter cannot be incremented manually using the counter-increment property.)The page counter can be reset using the counter-reset property
