Bug 46562 – Support repeating elements - CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: Printing

Support for reposition and repeating of elements in the document flow for printing should be supported,

This way a header and/or footer elements can be moved into the CSS3 Paged Media Level 3 Margin Boxes.
CSS3 Paged Media Level 3 lacks the concept of reposition of elements.

CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module - Running headers and-footers 
( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/#running-headers-and-footers ) adds the concept of reposition of elements via css.

PrinceXML supports reposition via the "prince-flow" property.

If "Running headers and footers" will be to complex to add webkit rendering, 
Webkit could at least add a way to reintroduce an element into the document flow on each printout page.

A simple approach would be a new prefixed css property:

-webkit-position-repeat: none; 
-webkit-position-repeat: top;
-webkit-position-repeat: bottom;

Adding enough room for bottom elements is tricky.
An approach could be to reduce the virtual page size, as soon as a page break page should happen, the bottom element(s) get added and rendered.
This concept may be useful for thead/tfoot printing on each page too.

Yes, this is becoming a serious issue. I feel sad for proposing Chrome to the client. This feature is letting us down and is a must to have a fix.