1089549 - [CSS flex] Table which is styled as flex item is truncated during the printing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1622935

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[Dmitry]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141011015303

Steps to reproduce:

This demo
http://fiddle.jshell.net/w1f0bhtw/3/show/light/
shows a table, which is the only item in flexbox container. During the printing only one page is produced. The rest of the table which does not fit this only page, is wrapped.

Expected: The table is spanned across several pages, as needed to print a complete table.

Also tested on Chrome v38, which does not have this issue.

Comment 1

[Dmitry]

Attachment: Printout produced by FF

Comment 2

[Dmitry]

The issue could be related to issues listed in bug 154892.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Attachment: 1089549.html (reporter testcase)

Comment 7

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Confirmed in Nightly 59.
I also found the issue in the wild: https://www.24joursdeweb.fr/2017/etre-daltonien-dans-une-equipe/

Comment 8

[robin.scheper]

Any updates on this? Printing is such basic thing to have in a browser, but 5 years later and it's still not properly supported in Firefox.

Comment 9

[phyks]

Confirmed in latest nightly (68.0a1, build 20190411161115). Everything is fine using the latest media emulation to have a print render within the tab but page breaks fail when actually printing the document.

Comment 10

[tino.aaltonen]

Even this Bugzilla page itself cannot be printed with Firefox, only 1 page gets printed and rest is truncated. All the other browsers seem to work correctly with this. Maybe this bug should be higher priority than 4? A lot has happened since this bug was reported and Flexbox is really popular these days with Bootstrap and all using it.

Comment 11

[David Hedlund]

(In reply to tino.aaltonen from comment #10)

Even this Bugzilla page itself cannot be printed with Firefox, only 1 page gets printed and rest is truncated. All the other browsers seem to work correctly with this. Maybe this bug should be higher priority than 4? A lot has happened since this bug was reported and Flexbox is really popular these days with Bootstrap and all using it.

I totally agree with you.

Comment 12

[robin.scheper]

So how will this every get any higher priority then it currently is? What can i do achieve this? Is there a way i can contribute to FireFox in fixing this?

Comment 13

[basbrands]

It would be really great if this issue can be fixed in Firefox. In the Moodle learning environment we use Bootstrap 4 and flex box everywhere and not being able to fully print pages is a problem for teachers and students.

Comment 14

[Sean Voisen (:svoisen)]

We are currently reviewing and triaging print output bugs. This is related to a known issue from bug 939897 which we hope to address soon.

Comment 15

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I think this is effectively a dupe of bug 939897 -- marking as such, and we can reevaluate to be sure once that bug's fixed.

Comment 16

[Ting-Yu Lin [:TYLin] (PST, UTC-7)]

Printing the test case in comment 0 and the page in comment 7 is fixed by bug 1622935. The patch is already in Firefox Nightly (2020-05-14).