I need simulate an A4 paper in web and allow to print this page as it is show on browser (Chrome, specifically). I set the element size to 21cm x 29.7cm, but when I send to print (or print preview) it clip my page.
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I think I'm forgetting something. But what would it be?
I looked into this a bit more and the actual problem seems to be with assigning initial
to page width
under the print
media rule. It seems like in Chrome width: initial
on the .page
element results in scaling of the page content if no specific length value is defined for width
on any of the parent elements (width: initial
in this case resolves to width: auto
... but actually any value smaller than the size defined under the @page
rule causes the same issue).
So not only the content is now too long for the page (by about 2cm
), but also the page padding will be slightly more than the initial 2cm
and so on (it seems to render the contents under width: auto
to the width of ~196mm
and then scale the whole content up to the width of 210mm
~ but strangely exactly the same scaling factor is applied to contents with any width smaller than 210mm
).
To fix this problem you can simply in the print
media rule assign the A4 paper width and hight to html, body
or directly to .page
and in this case avoid the initial
keyword.
@page {
size: A4;
margin: 0;
}
@media print {
html, body {
width: 210mm;
height: 297mm;
}
/* ... the rest of the rules ... */
}
This seems to keep everything else the way it is in your original CSS and fix the problem in Chrome (tested in different versions of Chrome under Windows, OS X and Ubuntu).