Strange IE print problem

Hi there folks,

I'm having a very bizarre problem with IE (no surprise there then!) Have a look at www.media-works.co.uk/powertrain/aboutus.htm - the site is very much a work in progress, but this page will not print correctly. The paragraphs are condensed into 1 or 2 word sentences when "print-previewing" and printing, which results in a 16 page printout - not good!

All other pages are fine and all other browsers I've tried (Opera 7, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.2) print the page out okay - the code for the containing div is:

div#peoplecontent {
position: absolute;
top: 155px;
left: 223px;
margin-top: 15px;
width: 71%;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cc0000;
}

and the paragraph code is:

div#peoplecontent p {
margin: 0;
padding-left: 40px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 20px;
line-height: 17px;
}

which is exactly the same code for all the other pages that are fine, except with a different id of course!

Any suggestions would be warmly received,

Dan

Your mixture of pixel positioning and percentage sizes is most likely what is causing your grief.
Try setting div#peoplecontent with a width of 35em (instead of 71%)

nb. 35em is around the optimum width for readability of paragraphed text.

Hi D3mon,

Thanks for that - using ems has sorted out the problem. I've set it at 60em which fills the page horizontally, and if you alter the page setup to landscape all the text can be printed. Not ideal, but far better than 16 pages of print!!

Thanks again,

Dan

now you've got a horizontal scrollbar at 800x600 though.

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