Closed
Bug 70198
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
printing long tables paginates oddly
Categories
(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)
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(Reporter: larson, Assigned: dcone)
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Details
Mozilla 0.8 - 2001021508 When printing long tables (that span more than one page) the page breaks are put in odd places. At the example URL, the page breaks after the first row (Monday, Tuesday, etc), leaving most of the first page blank, and forcing some to a third page. The content could easily fit on two pages if the page break wasn't so early. This also means that content is often separated from headers (as it is here) because few people make use of THEAD and TFOOT.
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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Boris: Not quite. Bug 24952 refers to content getting cut off. I'm not experiencing that. I'm just getting the page break in a very poor spot, that leaves most of a page blank. It may be convenient for the algorithm to try breaking at a table row but that's not convenient for the user. The nice handling of the page break between pages 2 and 3, which is within a single very tall row, shows that this is possible. Mozilla should be able to print the 2nd row of the table beginning on the first page immediately below the 1st row.
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Comment 4•24 years ago
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Keyser: Not quite that, either, though I have also noticed that behavior. Let me try some ASCII art of a long table. ------------- - | first row | \ ------------- \ <-- but page break put here :( | tall | length of | second | paper page | row | / | | _/ | | ------------- Because the second row will not fit completely on the first page, the entire row is shunted to page two. This is bad. It should try to print as much of the row 2 content on page 1 as is possible. If one row by itself is too long for a page, it will correctly break that row across multiple pages very nicely. I think the algorithm needs to be changed to perform this behavior at all times rather than trying to put a page break between rows as a first attempt.
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Comment 5•24 years ago
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this is defenitely a duplicate.. Karnaze has all these type of table pagination bugs.
Comment 6•24 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66804 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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