How To Paginate A Long Text Post

Question

I'm Creating a website for online reading stories using grails and i'm facing a business problem that if i post a story say 30 pages A4 in the Fckeditor and it had saved will .. the question is how can i display this in a 30 pages with a pagination or something like that.. do anyone have idea cause i'm out of simple ideas and i think making many lists of the story is a rough idea.. so is there any java/grails/groovy or even jQuery idea that can save my day?

Answer 1

You're probably going to have to write some custom code here.

If you want to auto-paginate, then you'll have to index into the string and grab a fixed number of characters, words, paragraphs, or whatever makes sense. If you don't need to auto-paginate, then you can embed pagination information in the text string. Either way you'll have to expose a page number field in the view, then use that to page into the text based on what the user provided.

Sorry I don't have a more elegant solution.

Answer 2

If you are willing to do it client-side then there are jQuery options, such as SimplePager plugin or jQuery Paginate. You will probably need your HTML to be divided into "segments" such as DIVs or LIs or something divisible, though.