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Old 09-18-2015, 10:52 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Phssthpok View Post
There are pages, certainly; that's what page-break-before and page-break-after are there to control in the CSS.
Certainly there are no pages (the fixed pages in a paper book), but screens, displays, or as we like to call them.

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So don't you think it would be useful to be able to tell the viewer not only where hard page breaks should go but that a block should float to the top of the viewer's display page when it is displayed?
With page-break after and float, you already have this, but your initial problem still exists:

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Is there a way to float a block element in a reflowable book (e.g. a table, or a div containing an image and caption) so that it will be displayed at the top (or bottom) of a page, and so that text will be flowed around it to avoid having a huge blank area on the page before?
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