233681 - Print oddities with table border/background spanning multiple pages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Robin Daugherty]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

With a table spanning multiple pages, using the <thead> tag around one row, the
header row shows up at the top of each page, as expected.  However, vertical
dotted borders on cells are missing on pages after the first.  (See attached
'example-border-missing.html')

Without the <thead> tag, dotted borders behave as expected, but pages after the
first have the same background as (apparently) the last cell to appear on the
first page.  (See attached 'example-background-bleed.html')

I have reproduced this with HTML 4.0 Transitional, and XHTML 1.0 Strict
(attached files are XHTML 1.0 Strict).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Load one of the pages.
2.  Print and examine output, or Print Preview.

Actual Results:  
Clean output, where second and successive pages match the formatting of the
first page.

Expected Results:  
Second and successive pages have different colors or borders than the first page.

Comment 1

[Robin Daugherty]

Attachment: Example of page where background color on pages 2+ is wrong.

Comment 2

[Robin Daugherty]

Attachment: Example of page where dotted vertical border on pages 2+ is missing.

Comment 3

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

I see the dotted border problem on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040314 Firefox/0.8.0+ and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040207.

I don't see the background problem on the same builds.

Confirming and moving to Browser - Printing.

Comment 4

[Ben]

Background bug confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040322 Firefox/0.8.0+, Windows 2000. It's wrong in both preview
and print.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203713 ***

Comment 6

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Unless borders are affected by "Print Background Colors", this is still a bug.

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This was fixed by bug 294836 on 2005-08-28.

I filed bug 307330 on the border problem.

-> FIXED