CSS/Firefox - How can I get table cell borders to show up when printing more than one page?

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I have an html document in which I am testing printing a table that spans a couple of pages when printed. Unfortunately, in Firefox, the cells lose their border.

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It oddly works in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. I realize that this was asked elsewhere, but sadly nothing seems to work.

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html/css: table borders appearing on screen but not in printout?

I tried a solution found in the comments using @media.

However, this doesn't work as it seems to break the css. Maybe I'm inserting this wrong?

I actually found a possible solution on another question asked on Stackoverflow: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/2578/how-to-prevent-table-borders-from-disappearing-while-printing

However, the top border on the headers is lost on the second and following pages. The spacing is also a bit odd and I still have to add padding to the cells.

Is there an approach that will handle printing the table with the css applied that will work across IE, Chrome, and Firefox?

user_1016716 · Answer

I don't know if there's a solution, but if you don't really need border-collapse: collapse, here's a workaround. Draw the borders that you need to draw explicitly.



    
    

        

    
    

        
            
                
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(Never mind the length of the code, that's just the rows pasted in until I was sure I had over a page.)

CSS/Firefox - How can I get table cell borders to show up when printing more than one page?

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