Re: Printing tables

From: "David E. Ross" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:23:29 -0800

On 12/26/2007 9:48 AM, johnacooke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

The W3C added THEAD, TFOOT and TBODY elements to facilitate the
printing of long tables, so that header and footer information could
be repeated on each page.

While I have seen this discussed briefly in a number of text books, I
have never seen it applied in reality satisfactorily.

Can anyone point me to a real situation where this has been done
please? I have tried in vain to find examples, but have been deluged
with irrelevant information so that I can't see the wood for the
trees!

Does anyone know of limitations? Very many thanks.

In Gecko browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino), there is a
well-known bug that prevents proper printing of long tables. See
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294991>. Despite the
Summary, this also appears to affect tables without captions.

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