231483 - print only one page with position: absolute (but works with position: relative)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154892

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Baron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040115

When I print a long div with "position: absolute;", I get only
one page printed.

This may be related to bugs 179135 and 122750, but it doesn't
seem to be the same.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. print the test page (to file, or print preview, or to printer)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
only one page printed

Expected Results:  
several pages printed

The problem is fixed by changing "absolute" to "relative" (although
of course this louses up the layout).  This can be seen by comparing
test1.htm to test2.htm, which differ only in test1.css and test2.css,
which differ only in whether the position is absolute or relative.
Specifically, the two pages are:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/test1.htm
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/test2.htm

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154892 ***