Sticking custom footer on each page to bottom while printing

Finally found an answer:

  1. html,body MUST HAVE height: 100%;
  2. There should be two types of div: outside (size of page), footer
  3. For both set display: block;
  4. For the outside set height: 100%; position: relative;
  5. For the inside set position: absolute; bottom: 0px;

Voila!

Here is my complete code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
    <style>
        html,body
        {
            height: 100%;
            margin: 0px;
        }
        body > div
        {
            height: 100%;
            display: block;
            position: relative;
        }
        body > div > div
        {
            position: absolute;
            bottom: 0px;
            left: 0px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        Page1
        <div>Page1Footer</div>
    </div>
    <div>
        Page2
        <div>Page2Footer</div>
    </div>
    <div>
        Page3
        <div>Page3Footer</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

This works for me

Just add following css in your html file

@page {

        margin-bottom: 40px;
        counter-increment: page;

        @bottom-right {
            border-top: 1px solid #000000;
            padding-right:20px;
            font-size: 12px !important;
            content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
        }
        @bottom-left {
            content: "Footer content goes here.";
            border-top: 1px solid #000000;
        }

    }

Update I played around a little bit with the code above and this may work easier than what I initially thought. (Note, there is potential for the footer to overlap content from the previous div, this could be resolved by adding a margin-bottom attribute to the content div equal to your custom footers set height - Also, if your page content is too long between page breaks, this will still have a couple scenarios that need attending). All that said, I tested locally and it worked as you desired.

CSS

<style>
@media print{
    .footer{
       position:relative;
       top:-20px; // this sets the footer -20px from the top of the next 
                  //header/page ... 20px above the bottom of target page
                  //so make sure it is more negative than your footer's height.

       height:10px;//notice that the top position subtracts 
                   //more than the assigned height of the footer
    }
}
</style>

HTML

<body>
   <div style="page-break-after: always">
      <div>This should be on top1</div>
   </div>
   <div style="page-break-after: always">
      <div class="footer">This should be on bottom of page1</div>
      <div>This should be on top2</div>
   </div>
   <div class="footer">This should be on bottom of page2</div>
</body>

Original Answer

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this. Browsers do not offer a means of creating custom headers and footers for printing.

Your best bet is to place information you want on every page in the title tag found in the <head><title>YOUR COMMON CONTENT</title></head> It's not going to be the prettiest. It comes down to your requirements.

The other option is to use @media print (CSS) coupled with javascript to dynamically calculate and insert page breaks/gaps of white-space while inserting divs(your custom footer and or header) at absolute positions for the known paper size. Then after the print event dynamically change the format back.

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