1559055 - Fragmented float floats independently of the primary fragment, causing problems while printing

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Columns, task, P3)

Description

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This is a report produced by RMarkdown with its default template, with the option toc_float: true.

In Firefox, the table of contents box is printed on all pages. On the second page and later, it interferes with text. It should only be printed on the first page.

In Chrome, the table of contents prints at the top of the first page of the report. In Safari, the table of contents prints to the left of text, but only on the first page.

The first page renders correctly when printed from Firefox but on subsequent pages the ToC interferes with text.

Comment 1

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

It seems they're using position: fixed? If so this should work like it does on Firefox per spec.

Comment 2

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Attachment: A test-case with multicol.

So it seems Chrome is not able to float a fragment independently from its primary fragment.

In the test-case above I expect no gap between the two blue boxes.

Sean, do we have a meta-bug for print issues?

Comment 3

[Sean Voisen (:svoisen)]

No meta bug for the new project. I'm tagging this as a print triage P2 for now though so we can track it.

Comment 4

[Ksenia Berezina [:ksenia]]

I can't access the testcase linked in https://webcompat.com/issues/32569 to confirm whether this is still an issue and we don't have any other reports, resetting webcompat priority.