I know I can produce an alternative print version, but I've never had a
problem printing something contained within a DIV using Netscape/Mozilla
before.   My goal really was to not have to require an alternative
stylesheet --but if I have to I will, considering it appears this is
happening to others.

Thanks,
Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: CSS printing problem with Netscape 7.


> Problem happens in Mozilla, also, so if it's a prb with
> Netscape, it's actually a prb with the Gecko rendering
> engine.
>
> But I looked at your page, and wondered why you're
> using an absolute position for printed output?
>
> David
> dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
>
> On 21 Apr 2003, at 11:29, Mike Taylor wrote:
>
> > This is bizarre.
> >
> > If you have Netscape 7, please try this link:
> >
> > http://w3.one.net/~lonewolf/testcss/test_print.htm
> >
> > The content is contained within an absolutely positioned
> > DIV.  When you go to FILE and PRINT PREVIEW in Netscape,
> > it only displays one page.  Clearly there's more content,
> > but it's not recognizing that.
> >
> > The problem appears to be the "position: absolute"
> > attribute.  If I remove that, then Netscape 7 will
> > recognize that there's a lot more text on the page, and
> > the print preview will display at least 3 total pages to
> > be printed.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening?  I can't believe I can't
> > absolutely position a DIV with content.....Internet
> > Explorer 6 does NOT have this printing problem.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
>

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