On 2/10/11 7:39 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > This goes back all the way to Mozilla, so it may be a W3C compliance > issue, but it's annoying nevertheless. > > On many websites, I can't seem to get a decent printout. For example, my > local paper has a searchable obituaries page, and I got 60 hits on my > last search, but it would only print the first page. I can see the rest > on screen, but I can't get them out on paper. > > <http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montgomerynews/obituary-search.aspx?page=1&affiliateid=2762&countryid=1&daterange=88888&stateid=49&startdate=20110116&enddate=20110210&entriesperpage=50> > > This returns 60 hits, of which the first 50 are displayed, but only > seven will print. In fact, in print preview, the first page is the page > header with no content, the second page is the first page of content, > and the third page is the page footer. That's it. The other 43 hits have > vanished. > > I've tried this with several different printers, including Adobe > Acrobat, and they're all the same. Mozilla and SeaMonkey seem to think > the second page is 10 feet tall and print only the first 11 inches. > > Needless to say, it prints fine in Internet Exploiter (except the header > page, which is the same in both). > > Any ideas? I hate wasting ink and paper on ads, and I really hate having > to switch browsers whenever I want to print something.
Although the page does not use tables, this might be another example of Bug #294991. The many nested <div> blocks might be acting like <td> blocks nested in <tr> blocks nested in <table> blocks for the Print component of Gecko or the Print component of Toolkit. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294991>. In any case, the page is very poorly composed. It's "tag soup" (many instances of unnecessary HTML tags). It has 155 XHTML errors and 51 CSS errors. I'm surprised that it can be displayed reasonably well. I'm not entirely surprised that it cannot be printed. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
