cragos wrote:

Demo on Wikia:
http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Sandbox/testoverflow&printable=yes

Demo on the en wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mrzaius/sandbox/overflowtest

ayg wrote:

• { overflow: visible !important; } is completely unacceptable in that it unthinkingly overrides perfectly legitimate uses of overflow. (If a particular wiki doesn't care, they can add it to Common.css in a @media tag just as easily as we can.) The correct answer is for overflow: auto/scroll to either not be used to obscure important content, or to only be used as part of classes that are specifically overridden for print. This is a content issue, not software.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10239 ***

cragos wrote:

There are no legitimate uses of overflow that warrant not disabling it in the default printable css. This isn't a software issue, but it is much more than a single-wiki issue.

ayg wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

There are no legitimate uses of overflow that warrant not disabling it in the
default printable css.

Not true. overflow: hidden;, for instance, is often used to create a new block formatting context, rather than for its overflow effects (see bug 1629). In some layouts non-visible overflow values may be the lesser of two evils for print, if the alternative is to have overtyping or other unpleasant effects. In the case of overflow: auto or overflow: scroll on a block with a fixed height, for instance, the correct solution for print is to remove the fixed height, not remove the overflow; the latter may make the page unreadable by overprinting.