IE is printing an extra page while Firefox is not

#1

I view the same page in IE and Firefox. When I print form either, IE prints
an extra blank page at the end while Firefox prints correctly and does not.

Any ideas?

Here's the end of the source page:

....
<body>
<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="window.print()" value="Print This"
class="prnt">
</FORM>
<div class="schedules"> <table class="dataTable">
<tr><th scope="col" colspan="4">Title</th><th scope="col" colspan="4">As of:
November 01, 2007</th></tr>
<tr><th scope="col"></th><th scope="col">Description</th><th
scope="col">Serial #</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Date
Added<br />Stopped</th><th scope="col">Cost</th></tr>
<tr><td class="property_columns">1</td><td class="property_columns">LAPTOP
COMPUTERS</td><td class="property_columns"></td><td
class="property_columns">$200</td><td class="property_columns"><br
/></td><td class="property_columns">$75</td></tr>
.....
<tr><td colspan="7">text here</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

And here's the stylesheet:

@CHARSET "ISO-8859-1";
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 0;
}
..header1{width: 100%;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;text-align:center;}
..header2{width: 100%;font-size: 14px;text-align:center;}
..header3{width: 100%;font-size: 11px;text-align:center;}

..schedules{display:block;page-break-after:always}

..dataTable{width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;}
..dataTable td{padding: 6px;margin: 0px;}
..dataTable td.property_columns{width:80px;border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;}
..dataTable th{font-weight: bold;text-align: left;font-size:
10px;background-color: #DDDDDD;border-bottom: medium double #000000;}

#2

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote

Quote:

Paul wrote:

I view the same page in IE and Firefox. When I print form either,

Print form? Print a form? Or is that a typo for "print from" ?

IE prints an extra blank page at the end while Firefox prints
correctly and does not.

Any ideas?

Yes.

Here's the end of the source page:

Provide the URL to the page so someone can test it. You code leaves so
much out, any answer would just be a guess.

Sorry, it is an intranet and not available to the world. What else do you
need? When I say print, I mean the user is trying to print the page, The
page is formatted as a report, though that doesn't matter. I thought I had
given all the supporting code. What am I missing for your help?

#3

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote

Quote:

Paul wrote:

I view the same page in IE and Firefox. When I print form either,

Print form? Print a form? Or is that a typo for "print from" ?

typo - print FROM...

#4

many thanks!

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote

Quote:

Paul wrote:

Sorry, it is an intranet and not available to the world. What else do
you
need?

Some more details from you on what you already tested?
Whether or not you validated the code and CSS?
Whether or not you are using a proper DOCTYPE that doesn't throw the
non-conformant IE into Quirks mode?

When I say print, I mean the user is trying to print the page, The
page is formatted as a report, though that doesn't matter. I thought
I had given all the supporting code. What am I missing for your
help?

Don't you have any web server somewhere that you could upload a test
case?

I was able to do that (with what most consider extra effort) here:
http://k75s.home.att.net/test/paul.html

I commented out the "page-break-after" and now IE only prints one sheet
of paper:

.schedules{display:block;/* page-break-after:always */}

I also added a DOCTYPE, and removed your "@CHARSET "ISO-8859-1";" as
that does not belong in CSS.

There are errors in your markup, so all bets are off as to how various
browsers will try to correct them.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...up=0&verbose=1

Your CSS does validate:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...st%2Fpaul.html

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