448549 - Print Selection affected by clumsy CSS

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428109

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Billy Estes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

I highlighted the section about check dates to the bottom of page only got header and footer

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Using Firefox 3.0.1 on Linux;  the selection prints although it's
extremely small, about 1x1 cm.  If I comment out:
@import url("/irs/cda/common/styleSheets/styles-gecko.css");
I get a normal print result, which suggests some error in the
style sheet?

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: URL without said stylesheet

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

It's the following rule in that stylesheet that causes the problem:

@media print {
	div.headerBar{display:block;background: #001E5A;width:10000px;padding-top:12px;padding-right:1200px;}
}

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Specifically, it's "width:10000px" that causes the problem.
Note that it's only a problem when printing a selection, not when
printing the whole page.  I'm guessing we try to fit that width
to the page width and thus everything is scaled down?

Comment 5

[nick58]

This also happens on http://www.volunteercalgary.ab.ca whenever you select anything on any page. It doesnt have that stylesheet problem though...

Comment 6

[:Hb]

The page http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=180250,00.html has changed.  Only the static Testcase attachment 331752 [details] is relevant.

Disabling All Styles with the Webdeveloper Toolbar extension is a workaround for the bad CSS on this page.

The Volunteer Calgary site throws errors including XML parsing errors.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volunteercalgary.ab.ca%2F

Old subject was: "print selection dose not print"

One way to solve most of the Print Selection issues would be to disable all formatting and simply print out the HTML in the default font.

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> One way to solve most of the Print Selection issues would be to disable all
> formatting and simply print out the HTML in the default font.

That's good as a workaround, but I think it would break too many things to be a general solution for print selection.  e.g. it'd break bold/italic/small-caps/superscript/subscripts, all of which could be a meaningful part of the content.  It'd also break "float:left" images with text flowing around them, content that's inserted via ":before" and ":after", etc.