Closed Bug 296867 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Printing (and print preview) do not work for absolute elements that are larger than 1 page

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154892

People

(Reporter: jonscaife, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606

Any element that uses absolute positioning will not break onto a second page. 
In the example given the whole content of the page in contained within an
absolutely positioned div.  Only the first page will print out.  This only
happens with absolute elements that do not fit within a printable area.  Another
website that demonstrates this phenomenon is
http://www.traininglinkonline.co.uk/structure.html  This problem is reproducible
in the most recent builds of Mozilla and Firefox.  Even very simple pages suffer
from this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access the webpage(s) given as examples.
2. Click on "file" and "print preview"
Actual Results:  
Only the first page is shown / will print

Expected Results:  
The entire contents of the webpage should print.  An automatic page break should
occur when the bottom of the printable area is reached

I was unable to check for a duplicate entry of this bug because my query
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=print+absolute)
was never successfully completed.  If this bug has already been reported I would
like to apologise in advance.
No need to apologize, but still, it is a duplicate :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154892 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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