193684 - page breaking done incorrectly when printing

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Andy Cheng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

The CSS "@media print" rules are not rendered correct while printing. The page
doesn't breaks as the document should be more than 1 page. The following is the
css rules:
div#all { position:absolute; font-size:10pt; left:5px; right:5px; top:25px;
bottom:5px; padding:5px; border-width:1px; border-color:black;
border-style:solid; overflow:auto; background:white; }
div#shadow { position:absolute; left:7px; right:3px; top:27px; bottom:3px;
background:silver; overflow:auto; }
div#status { font-size:10pt; padding-top:5px; padding-right:3px; text-align:right; }
@media print{
  div#status { display:none; }
  div#shadow { display:none; }
  div#all { position:static; border-width:0px; top:0px; left:0px; right:0px;
bottom:0px; padding:0px; overflow:visible; }
}

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.hit print button
2.print the document
3.

Actual Results:  
The document did not been printed correctly. There's no page break when the
document is more than 1 page.

Expected Results:  
The document should be printed correctly. There should be page breaks when the
document is more than 1 page.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is there an example document showing the problem?  If so, please link to it in
the URL field or attach it to this bug using
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=193684&action=enter

Comment 2

[Andy Cheng]

Attachment: It's in Chinese. Big5 encoding.

It's the page that printing goes wrong. It's in Chinese. Big5 encoding.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Doesn't seem to be a problem with the @media rules -- they get applied
correctly... (the table may not be splitting correctly; a minimal testcase would
be nice).

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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