[thelist] Fwd: Printing in IE breaks CSS layout

Mike evolt at muinar.com
Thu Oct 6 04:21:45 CDT 2005


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>The printing preview in IE (6.0/Win here) breaks apart this layout:
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>http://muinar.com/ctr/
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>The page is 720px wide, centered, and consists basically of two
>columns. Other sites, like for instance http://muinar.com/ , have
>also two columns, are centered and 720px wide, but don't break
>apart when printed in IE.
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>What could be the reason for this? And what can be done to fix
>the layout so that it isn't broken? I'd prefer that something is
>cut away at the right side, when the printing area is narrower
>than the page.

Just found out that if I set the containing div to 721px instead of
720, that it doesn't break anymore. Hmmm... smells like IE box-model
stuff... strange that it only breaks when printing  :P

Mike



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