191308 - blank page when printing or print preview if fieldset goes beyond one page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Cyril Chaboisseau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021210 Debian/1.2.1-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021210 Debian/1.2.1-3

If a page includes a box (fieldset) that goes across then end of page in the
Print formatting (either Print or Print Preview), then the result of the
rendering is a blank page

The page looks fine on the screen in the navigator Window but as soon as the
printing renders it, then the page comes all white (ie. only the header / title
without anything else -> blank)

it's probably the surrounding box (fieldset) that cannot go accross page boundaries

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a simple html page
2. define a fieldset (box) inside a form
3. put some lines with text inside that box in order to have more than a page to
be rendered on the printer (or the print preview)
4. File / Print Preview -> see how the page looks different to what you have in
the screen


another example can be seen here : http://adren.mine.nu/~cyril/bad_print.html

Actual Results:  
nothing but the tile is shown (blank page)

Expected Results:  
the page should look like what is on the screen (several pages with the text
inside the box)

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

----> Printing

Comment 2

[rcummins]

I am able to duplicate this problem as described using Mozilla build 2003070308
under Windows 98.

Comment 3

[mattrothcline]

Using the URL provided in the bug description, I can reproduce this bug on
Mozilla 1.4 final (20030624) and in Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 (20030728) on Windows
2000.

Comment 4

[Jan Tore Ynnesdal]

This bug remains in the latest Firefox, I have problems with this URL:

http://www.afs.no/utveksling/soknad.html (a 3-page application form, which many
users want to print after filling it in).

Fieldsets seem to be a problem in general - IE gets it wrong as well, Opera
handles it nicely.

Comment 5

[Cyril Chaboisseau]

bug seems to be resolved
no more error with Firefox 1.5.0.7 (both on Linux and Windows)

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the fix.

-> WORKSFORME

Comment 7

[Cyril Chaboisseau]

Sorry but actually this bug is still present in Firefox for both version 3.6.16 and 4.0.

You can test with this link:

http://adren.org/~cyril/bad_print.html

Then, open the menu File -> Print Preview
and you will see that only 2 pages are shown with the second page finishing with the 'a' letter while the html end up with 'end' and a closing box that does not appear in the preview nor in a real printout.

Comment 8

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Sorry but actually this bug is still present in Firefox for both version
> 3.6.16 and 4.0.

What you're seeing there is a separate issue, bug 471015.  Up until that bug was introduced in 2009, fieldsets printed correctly. (see e.g. Comment 5 here and bug 471015 comment 18)

Just because they're broken now doesn't mean we should reopen long-closed bugs about them being broken at some point in the distant past. :)

 --> Restoring WORKSFORME status from comment 6.