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CSS and print margins: how do I get a smaller top and bottom margin?

Asked by anAppBuilder in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Internet Explorer Web Browser

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When I do print preview (shrink to fit) in IE7 on the attached code, I get quite a large top and bottom margin.  Following some great suggestions from tomaugerdotcom and scrathcyboy I've gotten the margins to be smaller.  However other sites get even smaller top and bottom margins.  What am I missing?

One constraint is that the pages need to work without javascript.

Example site:with smaller margins: http://daphnesgreekcafe.munchaway.com/  (BTW the only relationship I have to the Daphne's site is that I order take out food from them)Start Free Trial 
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<!-- @title -->
		<title>Sample Test Page Margins</title> 
		<!-- @@title -->
		
		<style type='text/css'>
		
		* { 
			margin:0; 
			padding:0; 
			border:none; 
			border-collapse:collapse; 
		}
 
		h1 {
			margin-top: 1em;
			}
			
		h2 {
			margin-top: 1em;
		}
		
		h3 {
			margin-top: 1em;
		}
		
		p { 
			margin-top: 1em;
		}
		
		#body {
			font-family:tahoma, verdana, arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;
		}
		
		#bottomDivision {
			position:absolute;
			width:100%;
			height:.25in;
			top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;
			border-style: none;
			margin-top: 10.5in;
		}
 
		@media print {
			#bottomDivision {
				position:absolute;
				width:100%;
				height: 0;
				top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;
				border-style: none;
				margin-top: 10.25in;
			}
		}
	
		#copyrightDivision {
			position: absolute;
			width: 90%;
			text-align: center;
			font-size: xx-small;
			bottom: 0;
			background-color: fuchsia ;
		}
		
		#insideTheMargins { 
			position: relative;
			height: 9.5in;
			margin-top: .5in; /* print adds this to its margin */
			margin-bottom: .5in;
			margin-left: .75in;
			margin-right: .75in;
			background-color: aqua;
		}
		
		@media print {
			#insideTheMargins {  
				position: relative;
				height: 9.5in;
				margin-left: .5in;
				margin-right: .5in;
				margin-top: 0;
				margin-bottom: -.25;
				z-index: 10;
			}
		}
		
		#mainDivision {
			width: 8.5in; 
			height: 10.5in;
			position: absolute;
			left: 50%;
			margin-left: -4.25in;
			margin-right: 0;
			margin-top: .25in;
			margin-bottom: 0;
			background-color: yellow;
			
		}		
			
		@media print {
			#mainDivision {
				width: 8.5in; 
				height: 10.25in;
				position: absolute;
				left: 50%;
				margin-left: -4.25in;
				margin-right: 0;
				margin-top: 0;
				margin-bottom: 0;
				padding: 0;
			}
		}
		
		#outerDivision {
			position:fixed;
			width:100%;
			top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;
			border-style: none;
		}
 
		</style>
	</head>
 
	<body id = 'body'>
		<!-- OUTER DIVISION -->
		<div id = 'outerDivision'
			style = 'background-color: lime;'>
		</div> <!-- OUTER DIVISION -->
		
		<!-- MAIN DIVISION -->
		<div id = 'mainDivision' > 
			<!-- INSIDE THE MARGINS DIVISION -->
			<div id = 'insideTheMargins'>
			
				<h1 style = 'background-color: fuchsia; width: 90%;'>Page Title</h1>
			
				<div>
					<p id = 'copyrightDivision'>  Copyright Notice </p>
				</div>
			</div>  <!-- INSIDE THE MARGINS DIVISION -->
		</div>  <!-- MAIN DIVISION -->
		
		<!-- BOTTOM DIVISION -->
		<div id = 'bottomDivision'>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>
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