@media print - prints 3 pages in IE but 1 page in Firefox

[WebDevGuy]

When I print preview from Firefox, it shows it will print one page which is what I want. When print preview using Microsoft IE, it shows the page on one page but says it will print 2 pages, and actually prints three. The last two pages are blank.

Here's the code snippet in the page:

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
....
<div class="class1">
<div class="class2">enough stuff to fill 3/4 page<div class="class2">
</ div class="class1">

Here's the code from the style sheet:

@page { size 8.5in 11in; margin: 2cm }
@media screen {
	body {
		font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 10px;
	}
}
@media print {
	body {
		font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 8px;
	}
	@page { size 8.5in 11in; margin: 2cm }
}

Any ideas how to force IE to print just the one page?

[Paul O'B]

HI,

Can't really help you much here as my IE stand alone doesn't work in print preview anyway (unless you also have the problem in IE7).

Fix your code anyway - what is this?

[code]
</ div class="class1">
[code]

You can't add classes to closing tags.

I'm guessing your print problem is probably related to the way you have styled some elements. Make sure nothing is styled and then see what happens and then try narrowing the problem down by a process of elimination.

[felgall]

Try leaving out the @page line and see if that fixes it.

[WebDevGuy]

I took the surrounding <div class="class1"> out and it worked - I don't know why but it did. (BTW, I did have </div> in the actual code)

Thanks for your help guys.