CSS & Printer

[Xavier Perseguers]

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Hi there,

I'm a newbie with CSS

I've defined this div id:

#content {
position: absolute;
left: 10px;
top: 181px;
width: 750px;
height: auto;
text-align: justify;
}

I also have a title before, a menu bar and so on, that's why there is
"top: 181px;"

Yet, I have another stylesheet for printing, that simply overrides
what's not good.

The problem is that my content may be really big (in term of height) and
my browser does not want to "cut" the content to print it on new pages:
it tries to fit all of my page on a single sheet of paper.

When I try to print with MS Internet Explorer, no problem, the text goes
on multiple sheets of paper, but with Firefox not!

What should I do?

URL if you want to see the problem: http://www.perseguers.ch/LaTeX/tableaux/

Thanks

Xavier Perseguers
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[Xavier Perseguers]

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| #content {
| position: absolute;
| left: 10px;
| top: 181px;
| width: 750px;
| height: auto;
| text-align: justify;
| }

Could someone help please?

I've tried with

- - MS Internet Explorer 6 : OK for printing
- - Opera 7.? : OK for printing
- - Mozilla (last one) : as firefox 0.8 : it wants to fit all content on a
single page!

I repeat my question: I do have a really big content div tag (yet it is
no more an id but a class, ie #content -> .content)

How can I *force* mozilla and other mozilla-like browser to break
correctly my document when they try to print it?

Thanks

Xavier Perseguers
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[Toby A Inkster]

The problem is that my content may be really big (in term of height) and
my browser does not want to "cut" the content to print it on new pages:
it tries to fit all of my page on a single sheet of paper.

URL if you want to see the problem: http://www.perseguers.ch/LaTeX/tableaux/

Probably caused by all that absolute positioning. Scrap it.