322925 - Only one page printed of long HTML document

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129941

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[toregaupseth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

The print-out and print preview of some html pages/documents is giving only one page instead of alle the pages.
Other browsers (Opera) is showing/printing all pages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and load the file: http://hugin.hin.no/moodle/file.php/1/Filarkiv/99r.html
2. Try a printout or page preview.
3.

Actual Results:  
Only one page shown.

Expected Results:  
5 pages printout (on my normal printer).

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

That page is a 404. What is the correct URL?

Comment 2

[toregaupseth]

The correct URL is 
http://hugin.hin.no/moodle/file.php/1/Filarkiv/99.zip
Download, unpack and open from the File menu.

Comment 3

[GAThrawn]

Confirmed with SeaMonkey 1.0 on Windows 2000 only the forst page of content prints, and print preview only shows one page (with the text overflowing the bottom of the preview page).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0

Comment 4

[GAThrawn]

Attachment: Testcase

Reduced test case attached, problem seems to be down to a "body{overflow:auto;}" in the page's stylesheet.

Possible dupe of bug 165705 although that relates to overflow:auto set on a DIV element rather than the entire body.

Comment 5

[Snala]

This is happening for me too.
At the following site though:
http://www.ndoylefineart.com/drawexercise1.html

Comment 6

[Snala]

BTW: This is my user-agent string.  Just to confirm it appears in the 1.5.0.1 latest public build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Comment 7

[GAThrawn]

The website just mentioned in comment 5 above (http://www.ndoylefineart.com/drawexercise1.html) has no body{overflow:auto;} set in its CSS, and appears to be unrelated to this bug.

It does however have an awful lot of DIVs with "position: absolute" set on every one of them, suggest that it is probably more related to bug 179135 or bug 154892 both of which deal with web pages containing elements set to "position:absolute" where only the first page prints.

Note I am not suggesting that this bug should be marked as a dupe of either of those, just that the site added by Snala in comment 5 is probably a dupe of one of those two.

Comment 8

[emilyy]

Can someone look at this?

I use CSS and DIV tags but there is no absolute positioning and I have not set overflow. Yet, I still get the one page bug. I get one page and the last image on that page overflows to the next page maybe an inch or less. That image is cut off and nothing appears after it.

Comment 9

[Ville Pohjanheimo (inactive)]

Confirming this happens on Firefox 2.0 too.

Example page: http://moodle.didanet.fi/course/view.php?id=3
Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/2006101022 Firefox/2.0

Comment 10

[Bob Woolley]

Did anyone find a solution to the problem with firefox that it only prints one page of an html document? Explorer prints out perfectly yet firefox which is my preferred search engine only prints a single page even if the document only runs to two pages. Any guidance would be a real help?

Comment 11

[Bob Woolley]

Did anyone find a solution to the problem with firefox that it only prints one
page of an html document? Explorer prints out perfectly yet firefox which is my
preferred search engine only prints a single page even if the document only
runs to two pages. Any guidance would be a real help?

Comment 12

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox trunk build? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 13

[Bob Woolley]

I have just tried it out on Windows Vista and latest FireFox but the bug has not been corrected, at least on Vosta os. I will try it on XP when I log into my office computer on Monday unless somebody else reports the bug as corrected or still exists on that platform.

Comment 14

[Bob Woolley]

The fault still exists when using the XP operating system

Comment 15

[Justin McCormick]

I can also confirm that this issue is occurring using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2.  Perhaps this issue may also be related to bug 315295.  OS build is Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9

Comment 16

[Chris Cudmore]

Reproduced at <a href ="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms948909(d=printer).aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms948909(d=printer).aspx</a>

XP, using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071019 Firefox/2.0.0.8 Navigator/9.0.0.1

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox trunk build?

steve, testcase file fails trunk, prints only one page
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112605 Minefield/3.0b2pre

_before_ this is confirmed (if it is confirmed at all) someone first needs to check that it isn't a dupe of an existing bug, which I suspect it is.  search the bugs for css, or body and overflow - see body{overflow:auto;} in the testcase

Comment 18

[NoOp]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080615 SeaMonkey/1.1.10
Also occurs with Fx 2.0.0.14 and SeaMonkey 1.1.9

Exact same problem with this page:

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101496.asp

Page preview breaks just after the diagram and overflows at:
4. Change the IP address of the wireless router/access point.
Prints only first page.

All pages print properly in IE6.

Comment 19

[Ron Edge]

I am experiencing this exact problem this morning (2008-06-24). 

I took a Word Doc, converted it to HTML using ClickToConvert. The resultant HTML uses style sheet with ids and absolute positioning of all elements. In FireFox 3.0, ONLY the first page will print, second and third page are ignored. In FireFox, If I SELECT the entire text, and try to print selection, I get THREE BLANK PAGES, no text at all! In IE 7, all three pages print, everytime.

I have placed the HTML at the following publicly accessible URL:

http://test.iu.iuhoosiers.com/compservetest/bugzilla/

Comment 20

[Dietmar Rabich]

Same problem in FF 3.0.6. Workaround with CSS

* {overflow:visible!important;float:none!important}

Comment 21

[Jim Ronback]

For the following web site, only the first page out of 14 is printed with Firefox 3.6.13. All 14 pages can be printed with Internet Explorer 8.0.6001 .
http://www.the-scientist.com/2011/2/1/42/1/ .
I'm using Windows XP Pro Service pack 3 and a hp LaserJet 1000

I'm amazed that this problem has not been solved sine 2006!!

Comment 22

[Jim Ronback]

With Firfox 3.6.13 only the first page is shown in preview and it is the only page printable out of 12 pages which prints fine on IE with this website:
http://www.the-scientist.com/2011/2/1/42/1/#johnson .
I'm using Windows XP Pro service pack 3 and a HP Laserjet 1000

Comment 23

[Jim Ronback]

Will someone please confirm this bug so that it gets attention.

Comment 24

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Based on "overflow" mention in Comment 4 & Comment 20, it looks like the original bug here was a duplicate of bug 129941.

Jim's URL is also a dupe of bug 129941 -- I confirmed in DOM inspector that it's got a div called "wrapper" with computed style of overflow being "hidden".

So, good news -- this should all be fixed in Firefox 4.  I confirmed locally that Jim's URL is fixed in my Firefox 4 nightly.