263260 - page overflow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154892

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[saif]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

when print previewing this page in mozilla
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/units/itec824/assignment2.html, you will so an
overflow down the bottom of the page of writing.  I mean, outside the white
sheet of paper.  When you print, it also does not work correctly.  That is, it
tries to print what it sees on the print preview page.
In ie6.0+ it works fine...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/units/itec824/assignment2.html
2. click on the print preview button
3. observe the bug at the bottom of the page

Actual Results:  
page not displayed correctly in print preview mode

Expected Results:  
put the content on 2 pages rather than 1 overflowed page

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

A duplicate of bug 154892? ('position:absolute;' in
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/ppdp/Library/postgradunitsstyle.css)

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

yes, it's a dupe.  the body itself has position:absolute

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