233057 - <tbody> makes the printing go wild

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[frantisek holop]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sk-SK; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

in the example above (http://fred.pentacom.sk/Linea.html) there is a heavy use
of the tbody (which is correct). if there is an empty <tbody> tag the page is
not correctly rendered, after removing this empty tbody the page is fine in the
browser but still ``strange'' in the print prebview. download the example, view
it, than remove the one empty tbody but leave the others. without the tbody's
the print preview is beautiful

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[frantisek holop]

please look at #233135 i think these are interrelated.
the <tbody> seems to "block" the page division also.  if the table is longer
than a page the next page's <thead> and data is not rendered correctly.
please look at http://fred.pentacom.sk/e.html and make a print preview.
after removing the empty <tbody> tag (#233135) the table renders correctly but
the print preview is still incorrect.  after removing all the <tbody>'s or
leaving just the first the page rendering and printing are correct but i losse
the rules=groups parametere of the <table> and dont get rules for rows, only for
columns

Comment 2

[:aceman]

Sorry, I can't see any difference in the first testcase between the preview with
and without the empty tbody. Maybe bug 217769 (of which bug 233135 is a
duplicate) fixed your problem. The only problem remaining are those spelling
errors :)

But I can confirm comment 2 with Firefox 20040423 on Win2000. If the table does
not fit on the first page, it is completelly moved to the next page. That is
strange.

If you also don't see the first problem, I suggest changing the summary to be
more specific and change this bug to only report the second problem.

Comment 3

[frantisek holop]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, I can't see any difference in the first testcase between the preview with
> and without the empty tbody. Maybe bug 217769 (of which bug 233135 is a
> duplicate) fixed your problem. The only problem remaining are those spelling
> errors :)

please note, that bug 217769 is not completely resolved yet
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217769#c13) and you should see the
difference.  the difference is that with the empty tbody no rules are present,
while after removing the first empty tbody (line 32 in the example file) the
rules appear. (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8).  and according to a private mail i have got this
will not be fixed.  it wont work using html tags, only using css.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

Collapsed borders are a more general problem and won't be fixed soon.
I don't see the borders in both your examples, because I have a larger font set
in Windows, and that's causing problems too.

Bug 217769 has done what it could. It even made a workaround for ILLEGAL HTML
(bug 217769 comment 2), which you have in your source too. I wouldn't expect
them to fix anything else soon.

Anyway, you should concentrate this bug on some of the issues raised in your
comment 1 and update your summary to be more specific. The current state is too
general.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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