From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020404 BuildID: 20020404 Elements with position:fixed; not visbile in Print Preview. Load the testcase with an element having fixed position, go into Print Preview. You see a blank page. Reproducible: Always

Confirming on linux 2002040410.

A good example how serious this bug is resource:///res/samples/test12.html Print Preview shows nothing.

And worse: its not printing either. I suspect a relationship with bug 45788 (floating items are chopped off at end of page)?

Therefor changing component to printing and reassigning to owner of printing.

*** Bug 146729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The fixed elements are not even getting reflowed in PP.

roc+moz: Do you have any idea about why fixed frame never get reflow in PP?

Fixed elements are reflowed by the viewport. Do you have one of those? CSS says that for printing, a fixed element should be repeated once per page. You're probably going to have to write your own code to handle fixed elements. Maybe factor out the the fixed-element code in nsViewportFrame and call it from both nsViewportFrame and nsPageFrame? (If you copy and paste it I will get mad :-))

roc, thanks, I will look into that some more now that I know here to start.

You're welcome. But I beg you, don't duplicate code ... if you feel that you need to, we can look at how to reorganize the current code so you can use it. We might be able to rework nsAbsoluteContainingBlock so it can be used by the viewport and the page for fixed frames.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179683 ***

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