197934 - Expand <textarea> fields to size of text when printing

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement)

Description

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

I noticed the other day that when printing a page containing a form (on Mac OS
X, build id 2003030503) that moz truncated anything that did not fit within the
height and width of a <textarea>. E.g. I typed two paragraphs into a textarea
that only has room to show one paragraph so the text area has a scrollbar. When
printing, the printed copy only shows the portion of the text that was visable
on screen and the scrollbar is printed as well.

Instead (possibly as an option in the print dialog box), we should expand the
size of the textarea to fit all the text on the printed copy in order to avoid
this problem (and the potential issue of dataloss if a user printed a document
thinking that all their form input would be visable).

Comment 1

[Max Alekseyev]

Confirming on OS/2 build 2003041612
Hardware/OS -> All/All

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

Related bug 202931

Comment 3

[Bob Easton]

HTML 4.01 standards state that overflow of textareas in either dimension should
be accommodated.  On-screen behavior is perfectly OK.  Behavior in print can be
improved.  One should be allowed to set CSS for textareas to overflow:visible
and have the print box expand to accommodate the entire contents of the textarea.

Yes, people do print their filled in forms before submitting them. Let's help
them see everything they enter.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

Great idea.

Comment 5

[karl155]

Depends on Bug 212763 ?