KB190278 - PRB: THEAD and TFOOTER Text Is Not Printed on Each Page

Article ID: 190278

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

This article was previously published under Q190278

SYMPTOMS

When a table with THEAD and TFOOTER tags is printed, the expected behavior is for the header and the footer to be printed once in the entire document.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

Create a standard HTML page with this a table tag formatted like this:

   <TABLE BORDER=1>
   <THEAD  style="display: table-header-group">

           <TR><TH> ...header information...------ 

      </THEAD>

      <TFOOT  style="display: table-footer-group">

           <TR><TD> ...footer information...------ 

      </TFOOT>


   <TBODY>
        <TR><TD>...first row of block two data...</TD></TR>
        <TR><TD> ...second row of block two data...</TD></TR>
        <TR><TD> ...third row of block two data...</TD></TR>
        (repeat enough times to span this table across two or more printed
        pages)
   </TBODY>
   </TABLE>

Print the HTML document.

REFERENCES

Visit the following MSDN Web site for additional information about the DHTML display property:

display Attribute | display Property
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/display.asp

Visit the W3C Web site, section 12.1.3, for information about Groups of rows: the THEAD, TFOOT, and TBODY elements:

HTML 4.0 Specification
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1942.txt

Additional query words: print printer head header footer span page

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