[BNM] Firefox print problem

[John Thompson]

Cheers Matt, much appreciated. I will give that a go.

Kind regards

On 4 Nov 2008, at 09:28, matt stone wrote:

> 2008/11/3 John Thompson <john at journalism.co.uk>:
>> Can anyone help me? One of our readers has reported a problem with
>> printing pages on our site http://www.journalism.co.uk when using
>> Firefox.
>>
>> The print out truncates.
>>
>> We've got a print stylesheet and it seems to print OK in other  
>> browsers.
>>
>> This is the page they were trying to print out - http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/532502.php
>> - but the issue probably applies to all pages on our site with long
>> articles.
>>
>> I've Googled around but have been unable to find any coherent
>> explanations.
>
> Print problems in firefox are usually caused by floats extending over
> a page, in your case you've also got your div#contentnews set to
> overflow hidden and i'm wondering if that's causing an problem as
> well.
>
> As you've removed your left and right columns in your print
> stylesheet, why not remove the width float and overflow on
> div#contentnews? Alternatively you could add the following rule in
> your print stylesheet.
>
> div#contentnews:after {
> content:".";
>  display:block;
>  height:0;
>  clear:both;
>  visibility:hidden;
> }
>
> I've found that's a pretty reliable way of fixing float clearing
> issues in firefox.
>
> Cheers
> Matt
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