281712 - vertical position of absolutely positioned blocks broken on second & subsequent printed pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179135

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jack Bates [:nottheoilrig]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050207 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-5)

The only way I could figure getting both left & right justified text on the same line - for the dates on my 
resume - was setting "position: absolute" & "right: <right margin>" - I wish there were a nicer way, but 
at least this displays correctly on screen in Firefox & on the first page printed by Firefox.

The dates on second & subsequent pages printed by Firefox all end up superimposed at the top of the 
first page.

I reproduced this problem using Firefox on both Linux & OS X.

http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/resume/200502080/resume.xhtml

The most relevant bug I found was 265355 - but it deals with blocks' heights & percentages of the 
canvas.

Since the dates are correctly vertically positioned on the first page, I guess vertical position on printed 
pages is partly correct - & since all the dates are correctly vertically positioned on screen, I guess the 
problem is associated with pagination? Unfortunately I'm not sure where in the source to investigate -

Thanks!

Jack

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/resume/200502080/resume.xhtml in Firefox
2. print, or print preview
Actual Results:  
The dates on second & subsequent pages all end up superimposed at the top of the first page.

Expected Results:  
The dates should have ended up at the same positions as they do on screen.

Comment 1

[Xin Zhang]

reproduced at http://129.2.52.142/~zhangx/TEM/TEM%20feb%2020%202005.html

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179135 ***