Re: CSS printing problem with Netscape 7.

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

 Date:  Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:33:47 -1000
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  nuvox
  todo: View Thread, Original
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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