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no border on HTML table when printing

I'm working on website that is supposed to print table.

One problem I'm running into is that some table borders won't be printed, although they are correctly displayed on screen.

I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Both display all table borders on screen, but omit some of the borders when printing.

What do I need to do to get them printed?

EDIT 1: Added jsFiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/Ax4qU/

Code:

JavaScript:

function printDiv()
{
  var divToPrint=document.getElementById('table');
  newWin= window.open("");
  newWin.document.write(divToPrint.outerHTML);
  newWin.print();
  newWin.close();
}

CSS:

<style type="text/css">

    html, body, div, span, object, iframe,
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
    abbr, address, cite, code,
    del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp,
    small, strong, sub, sup, var,
    b, i,
    dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
    fieldset, form, label, legend,
    table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        border: 0;
        outline: 0;
        font-size: 100%;
        vertical-align: baseline;
        background: transparent;
    }

    body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font: 12px/15px "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        color: #555;
        background: #f5f5f5 url(bg.jpg);
    }

    a {
        color: #666;
    }

    #content {
        width: 65%;
        max-width: 690px;
        margin: 6% auto 0;
    }

    table {
        overflow: hidden
        border: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
        background: #fefefe;
        width: 70%;
        margin: 5% auto 0;
        -moz-border-radius: 5px; /* FF1+ */
        -webkit-border-radius: 5px; /* Saf3-4 */
        border-radius: 5px;
        -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    }

    th, td {
        padding: 18px 28px 18px;
        text-align: center;
    }

    th {
        padding-top: 22px;
        text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #fff;
        background: #e8eaeb;
    }

    td {
        border-top: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
        border-right: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
    }

    tr.odd-row td {
        background: #f6f6f6;
    }

    td.first, th.first {
        text-align: left
    }

    td.last {
        border-right: none;
    }

    /*
    Background gradients are completely unnecessary but a neat effect.
    */

    td {
        background: -moz-linear-gradient(100% 25% 90deg, #fefefe, #f9f9f9);
        background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 25%, from(#f9f9f9), to(#fefefe));
    }

    tr.odd-row td {
        background: -moz-linear-gradient(100% 25% 90deg, #f6f6f6, #f1f1f1);
        background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 25%, from(#f1f1f1), to(#f6f6f6));
    }

    th {
        background: -moz-linear-gradient(100% 20% 90deg, #e8eaeb, #ededed);
        background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 20%, from(#ededed), to(#e8eaeb));
    }

    tr:first-child th.first {
        -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
        -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; /* Saf3-4 */
    }

    tr:first-child th.last {
        -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
        -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px; /* Saf3-4 */
    }

    tr:last-child td.first {
        -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px;
        -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; /* Saf3-4 */
    }

    tr:last-child td.last {
        -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 5px;
        -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; /* Saf3-4 */
    }

</style>
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user2496520 Avatar asked Jul 04 '14 14:07

user2496520


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2 Answers

As the table is being copied to a new window, your CSS is not being retained. You can get around this by passing some relevant CSS across to the new window in your document.write() method. You also need to provide a small amount of padding to introduce the borders. See the following JSFiddle showing this in action: http://jsfiddle.net/826Zm/3/

function printDiv() {
    var divToPrint = document.getElementById('table');
    var htmlToPrint = '' +
        '<style type="text/css">' +
        'table th, table td {' +
        'border:1px solid #000;' +
        'padding:0.5em;' +
        '}' +
        '</style>';
    htmlToPrint += divToPrint.outerHTML;
    newWin = window.open("");
    newWin.document.write(htmlToPrint);
    newWin.print();
    newWin.close();
}
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athms Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 03:09

athms


Try window.print() instead of printDiv() because you're not loading CSS.

or

updating your CSS to this

table {
    border: solid #000 !important;
    border-width: 1px 0 0 1px !important;
}
th, td {
    border: solid #000 !important;
    border-width: 0 1px 1px 0 !important;
}

or to this

@media print {
    table {
        border: solid #000 !important;
        border-width: 1px 0 0 1px !important;
    }
    th, td {
        border: solid #000 !important;
        border-width: 0 1px 1px 0 !important;
    }
}
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hex494D49 Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 03:09

hex494D49