363876 - CSS Absolute Positioned Tag Will Not Print

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 546559

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Randy Santmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If a tag is positioned absolutely, and the top coordinate is below the bottom of the first page, it will not print.  Internet Explorer will continue painting on to the next page, in the appropriate spot.

<DIV STYLE="position:absolute;top:2048;left:0;">THIS WILL NOT PRINT BECAUSE IT IS POSITIONED BELOW THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST PAGE</DIV>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a web page with this line "<DIV STYLE="position:absolute;top:2048;left:0;">THIS WILL NOT PRINT BECAUSE IT IS POSITIONED BELOW THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST PAGE</DIV>"
2.Try and print it
3.Only the first page will print, and it will be blank



Expected Results:  
I would expect absolutely positioned DIV tags to print on the appropriate page.  This would be very useful because then I can use CSS instead of PDF for newsletters.  The only reason I can't do it is because Mozilla doesn't support it.

As far as I can tell, there is no easy workaround.

Comment 1

[Randy Santmann]

Bump.  Have there been any updates on this?  

Comment 2

[mmortal03]

Was this fixed by bug 154892?

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: testcase, attached to the bug

This is still an issue in current trunk build.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

George also posted a testcase that I think also is what this bug is about:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=311213
That testcase was posted in bug 193211.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

fantasai, roc, want to take a look?

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

We're not expecting this to be fixed in 1.9.