Keep an HTML element from spanning multiple pages when printed

Question

I have the following HTML that I would like to keep from being broken up when spanning multiple pages. The problem is that if I use page-break-before or after, it will put each element on it's own page. The other problem I'm having is that if I set display: block on either the cell CSS class or the wrap class, the DIV or LI still gets broken up. I have a print media CSS file and a CSS file for the screen as well. I want to keep the <li class="cell"> element and its contents from being broken up.

        <div class="pad">
        <h1 style="text-align: center; margin: 10px 0">

            Work Orders for Jan 05, 2011
        </h1>
        <p class="printHidden">
            <a href="/orders/print-all/date/2011-01-05">Print All Work Orders</a>
        </p>
        <ul class="workorders">                    
            <li class="cell">
                <div class="wrap" id="146">

                    <div class="scheduled">
                        <p>
                            <strong>Work Order:</strong> <a href="/orders/view/work-order/146">158801</a>
                        </p>
                        <p>
                            <strong>Client:</strong> Client Name
                        </p><br>

                        <b>Resources</b>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <a href="/resources/view/resource-id/5" id="Person-5">Mikell McLaindon</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <a href="/resources/view/resource-id/9" id="Person-9">Jose Copper</a>

                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                    <div class="unschedule printHidden">
                        <h1 style="text-align: center; margin: 10px 0 10px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">
                            Unschedule Resource for 15880-PW
                        </h1>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </li>
            {... removed for brevity ...}

Answer 1

EDIT: PROPER SOLUTION

See: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pagebi.asp So if you add the following to your CSS it should fix your problem:

@media print
{
    div.pad { page-break-inside:avoid; }
}

All the major desktop browsers now support this.

However, there is also page-break-after:avoid and page-break-before:avoid which you can add to every element within the .pad class in order to produce the same result in some older versions of browsers.

@media print
{
    div.pad * { 
        page-break-after:avoid;
        page-break-before:avoid;
    }
}

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_print_pagebb.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pageba.asp

OLD ANSWER:

It sounds like you're trying to fit something on a page that doesn't fit on a page. I would try adding a stylesheet with media="print"...

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" charset="utf-8" />

...that reduces the font size, padding, etc. of all of these elements so that you CAN put a page break before this section and have it fit on the page.