456112 - Print & Print Preview Truncates tables and pushes them to a new page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129941

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Scott Howard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080919032843 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080919032843 Minefield/3.1b1pre

If a table is longer then on page, Firefox only prints the first page of the table.  It will also push the table to another page if it will not fit on the current page completely.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL
2. Tell it to Print, or Print Preview

Actual Results:  
You see the Div border extended to the bottom of the first page, with no content,
The second page has the first page of the table, the third page has the close of the div.  The three other pages of the table (according to other browsers) is gone.

Expected Results:  
 The table should have started on the first page, and continued on as many additional pages as necessary.

I have seen some OLD bug Listings that where close, but did not fully address the issue. Nor where they current.  This is up to date as of today the 19th of Sept, 2008

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If a table is longer then on page, Firefox only prints the first page of the
> table.

That's the long-standing bug 129941 -- elements with "overflow: [non-visible]" are clipped at one page.  In this case, it's specifically from a div with class="fixed_frame_body", which gets "overflow: auto" from that class.

FWIW, as a workaround, I think this could be alleviated by using a separate printing-only set of style rules, using "overflow: visible" (or leaving overflow unset) in that one.

> It will also push the table to another page if it will not fit on the
> current page completely.

That part is actually a feature, not a bug. :)  For elements that we can't currently split (like overflow:non-visible elements), it's better to push them to a new page, to reduce the amount that we have to clip.

Comment 2

[Scott Howard]

Thank you for your comment, My confusion then would be is Overflow: auto; not visible  It is displayed within the boundaries of it's container.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I don't entirely understand what you're asking.  Can you use complete sentences? :)

If my comment wasn't clear, bug 129941 affects all values of overflow *other* than visible, including "overflow: auto".

Comment 4

[Scott Howard]

Thank you, Yes, that clarifies your prior comment.