Sent by Ines Robbers on 6 January 2003 15:03
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your reply!
The error occurs in many browsers.
I guess you're right with your hint that it has to do with page breaks.
The print.css itself is very straightforward:
The first div #haupt is positioned only via margins, the same goes for
the following divs.
The only problem might be that on the default stylesheet I use #links as
a container for #inhaltlinks which is the box I want to have printed
after the main content (#haupt).
So perhaps it has to do with the #links div?
Is it actually possible to set #links to display:none and then somehow
get #inhaltlinks out of there and display it?
I couldn't figure that out so far...
This is the print.css:
...
#haupt {margin: 0 5%; ...}
#links {margin: 0 5%; ...}
#inhaltlinks {margin: 0; ...}
...
Here the XHTML:
...
<div id="haupt">
Main content
</div>
<div id="links">
Other divs...
<div id="inhaltlinks">
Left content
</div>
...
I would be grateful for any further tip!!
Ines
PS: It seems to work fine at
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/
* Hello Ines,
*
* You don't say what browser you are using. Also, paper size
* and printer margins will affect the position of the page
* breaks. I print- previewed your page using Opera 5.12 (and A4
* paper) and found that the display of the second div was
* corrupt (but not as badly as
* you found).
*
* My experience of printing pages with nested-table designs
* (using various browsers including IE6 and NS7) suggests that browsers
* have difficulty in handling page breaks. I suspect they would
* all have problems with table-less, CSS-positioned pages as well.
*
* I applaud your use of print style sheets but I think you are
* probably pushing current browsers beyond their limits. I
* haven't analysed
* your CSS. You may have to simplify your page structure a
* little if printing them is important to your users.
*
* Jim Wilkinson
*
* Cardiff. Wales UK
*
*
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