Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> On May 25, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Lori Lay wrote:
>
>
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for a way have some content printed at the start of each
>>> printed page. I guess this is would be generally useful, since
>>> many rules
>>> and standards require that some identifying information appear on
>>> each
>>> page.
>>>
>>> On Firefox 2, the following simple approach works nicely: wrap the
>>> repeatable initial content in side <div id="hdr">...</hdr> and use
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>> @media print {
>>> #hdr { position: fixed; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 3em; }
>>> body { position: relative; top: 4em; } }
>>>
>>> It degrades gracefully on IE 6, but on IE 7, things get wild: the
>>> header
>>> is repeated but it overlays the content proper. If I put the content
>>> proper inside a div and set position: relative; top: 4em for it, then
>>> IE 7 seems to do it right. Demo:
>>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/hdr.html
>>> (I didn't actually print it; I'm relying on Print Preview.)
>>>
>>> Is the approach reasonable at all - can it be expected to work on
>>> conforming browsers? Any pitfalls?
>>>
>>> Often we'd like to have the header not appear on the front page,
>>> but I'm
>>> afraid there is no simple way to prevent that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Jukka,
>>
>> I had a look at this in various browsers.
>>
>> Results:
>>
>> FF 2/Mac, FF 2/Win - Works ok, but the English - the universal
>> language
>> on the Internet heading with the copyright is repeated on every page.
>>
> That is the intention, actually. Position:fixed objects should be
> repeated on every page.
>
>> Your hdr division is at the very top of the page.
>>
>> Safari - Works as expected. The hdr division contents are repeated
>> every page, but the English - the universal language... with the
>> copyright title is only on the first page.
>>
> Safari and WebKit get that wrong
> #hdr, which is the fixed position object should be displayed as Fx
> 2.0 does.
>
> Philippe
> ---
> Philippe Wittenbergh
> <http://emps.l-c-n.com>
>
>
>
Yes, Philippe, you're right. I got confused about which part was
supposed to repeat and which part was simply output by the browser.
So, only FF correctly renders the print style. Opera tries but the
content overwrites the header on the second page. The rest of the pages
do not display the header. And the header is printed vertically if you
actually print the first page. As far as the rest go, they didn't get
it right either. I even tried a WebKit nightly - no dice.
Sorry for the confusion.
Lori
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