135653 - Elements with position:fixed; not printable and not visible in Print Preview

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 179683

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P1)

Description

[José Jeria]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020404
BuildID:    20020404

Elements with position:fixed; not visbile in Print Preview.
Load the testcase with an element having fixed position, go into Print Preview.
You see a blank page.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Page with fixed position paragrah

Comment 2

[Arthur]

Confirming on linux 2002040410.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

A good example how serious this bug is
resource:///res/samples/test12.html

Print Preview shows nothing.

Comment 4

[Håvard Wall]

And worse: its not printing either. 
I suspect a relationship with bug 45788 (floating items are chopped off at end
of page)?

Comment 5

[Arthur]

Therefor changing component to printing and reassigning to owner of printing.

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 146729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[rods (gone)]

The fixed elements are not even getting reflowed in PP.

Comment 8

[Pete Zha]

roc+moz:
Do you have any idea about why fixed frame never get reflow in PP?

Comment 9

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Fixed elements are reflowed by the viewport. Do you have one of those?

CSS says that for printing, a fixed element should be repeated once per page.
You're probably going to have to write your own code to handle fixed elements.
Maybe factor out the the fixed-element code in nsViewportFrame and call it from
both nsViewportFrame and nsPageFrame? (If you copy and paste it I will get mad :-))

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

roc, thanks, I will look into that some more now that I know here to start.

Comment 11

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

You're welcome. But I beg you, don't duplicate code ... if you feel that you
need to, we can look at how to reorganize the current code so you can use it. We
might be able to rework nsAbsoluteContainingBlock so it can be used by the
viewport and the page for fixed frames.

Comment 12

[karnaze (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179683 ***

Comment 13

[sujay]

verified.