Repeat an element on every printed page with CSS

Henning Koch

January 11, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer will repeat elements with position: fixed on every printed page (see attached example).

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The internet knows no way to do this in Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari). These browsers will only render the element on the first printed page.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2012-01-11 14:14)