inline-block elements taller than page get clipped

[iabw]

A block will clip off the bottom of the page once it no longer contains "real" content ( f.e., an element with a height of 3000px, but no child elements ). This in itself seems slightly problematic and you're already aware of, I believe.

However, an inline-block will clip even if it has valid content, once it's taller than the page. It also seems to add a blank page before itself?

Since floats and tables don't cross page boundaries, this seems to make it impossible to have a column layout with a column taller than a page. I assume I'm doing something wrong, since no one else seems to have this problem...

I was having this problem on a "real" page, with 2 columns, one of which is very tall. I reduced it to the following reproduction:

An example pdf with a block with a set height of 3000px, and enough text to go onto 3 pages.

The same block flagged as an inline-block only shows one page of Text before clipping.

Here's the html for this test -

<div>

    <div style="    /* display: inline-block; */  width: 70%;   height: 3000px;    background: blue;">

        <div style="height:10px;">Text</div> <!-- repeat a couple hundred times -->

    </div>
    <div>Text here</div>
</div>

[SimonSapin]

Page breaks are not supported inside inline-block, for the same reason they are not inside floats, abspos, and table cells: WeasyPrint only knows of one "flow" at a time when doing a page break. Yes, that probably means that WeasyPrint right now can not do multiple-column layout across pages.

[iabw]

Okay, thank you. That makes sense, it just wasn't what I thought the situation was.

[liZe]

Duplicates #36.