400136 - Firefox prints blank page when navigation div is floated

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Susan Griffiths]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

I've redone a small site (www.local-history.co.uk/nlha) for a voluntary organisation. Both the CSS and the mark-up have validated successfully. I've loaded the site successfully in Safari and Firefox in OS X and in Firefox and IE in Windows XP but when I came to try and print out the 'How to join the Association' page I couldn't get Firefox in either OS X or in Windows to co-operate. Both Safari in OS X and IE in Windows XP printed it without any problems, but Firefox in OS X just printed a blank page and Firefox in Windows XP printed one of each of the page title, the URL, the date and '1 of 1' at one of the four corners of the page.

After seeking advice from the CSS-D mailing list I found that it was the float instruction for the navigation div which was the problem. I have subsequently added a CSS stylesheet for printing and Firefox is now happily printing the pages, but I still think that Firefox should have been able to print the page properly without a print style sheet.

The CSS stylesheet is at www.local-history.co.uk/nlha/global.css

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this issue still with version 3.6 or 4.0 beta?

Comment 2

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

No response to needed information. -> incomplete report