444802 - [UX] <thead> duplicated on subsequent pages for big tables

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Victor Engmark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

I'm creating a page in XHTML 1.1 which contains, among other things, several big tables, none of which span more than a page when printed. Even so, whenever a table is the only content on its page, the <thead> content is repeated on the next page. This should only happen if the <tbody> content flows over into the next page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached XHTML file.
2. Click File -> Print Preview
Actual Results:  
The "Word processing software" table is shown alone on a page, with the headings duplicated on the next page.

Expected Results:  
Only one set of headings should be printed for the "Word processing software" table.

Comment 1

[Victor Engmark]

Attachment: Test case

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

This is by design.