Bug 521204 Comment 18 Edit History

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That SAP page simply has all of its content inside of an `overflow:auto` element which is sized to fit in the viewport (`top:91px; bottom: 0`), which in the case of a printed document is the first page).

So indeed, browsers are all printing it "correctly", and SAP probably wants to add a "print" media query to turn off that `overflow:auto` styling (and perhaps some other styling).

In any case: let's please not have further discussion/investigation of individual issues on this bug, since this is a meta-bug.  Best to spin off individual bugs per-issue so that this bug's comment-thread doesn't become a giant wall of different investigations. Thanks!
That SAP page simply has all of its content inside of an `overflow:auto` element (i.e. a scrollable element) which is sized to fit in the viewport (`top:91px; bottom: 0`), which in the case of a printed document is the first page.  When viewed in a browser, you can reach all the content via scrolling that element, but of course there is no scrollbar in the printed output.

So indeed, browsers are all printing it "correctly", and SAP probably wants to add a "print" media query to turn off that `overflow:auto` styling (and perhaps some other styling).

In any case: let's please not have further discussion/investigation of individual issues on this bug, since this is a meta-bug.  Best to spin off individual bugs per-issue so that this bug's comment-thread doesn't become a giant wall of different investigations. Thanks!
That SAP page simply has all of its content inside of an `overflow:auto` element (i.e. a scrollable element) which is sized to fit in the viewport (`top:91px; bottom: 0`), which in the case of a printed document is the first page.  When viewed in a browser, you can reach all the content via scrolling that element, but of course there is no scrollbar in the printed output.

So indeed, browsers are all printing it "correctly", and SAP probably wants to add a ["print" media query](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queries/Using_media_queries) to turn off that `overflow:auto` styling (and perhaps some other styling).

In any case: let's please not have further discussion/investigation of individual issues on this bug, since this is a meta-bug.  Best to spin off individual bugs per-issue so that this bug's comment-thread doesn't become a giant wall of different investigations. Thanks!

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