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Firefox ESR puts space between cells and pushes the rest of the content to page 2.

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juliaMurn
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I am having problems in Firefox ESR similar to the problem described here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208178 . Will this be fixed soon?

see the below excerpt from the thread I linked 

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Licinio Alves 2003-06-16 06:35:19 PDT Another simpler example that displays part of the problem. If using a large table with a rowspan=2, and another cell that spans a print page, then a space is placed between the two row cells on the first printed / print preview page (second page is rendered okay).. 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>table height</title>
  </head>

  <body>

    <table border="1">
	<tr>
	  <td rowspan="2">
	    1st cell
	  </td>
	  <td>
	    text in big, multi-page table cell...

	    <ul>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>
	      <li>xxx</li>

	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	      <li>yyy</li>
	    </ul>
	  </td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	  <td>
	    footer cell...
	  </td>
	</tr>
    </table>

  </body>
</html> "
I am having problems in Firefox ESR similar to the problem described here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208178 . Will this be fixed soon? see the below excerpt from the thread I linked " Licinio Alves 2003-06-16 06:35:19 PDT Another simpler example that displays part of the problem. If using a large table with a rowspan=2, and another cell that spans a print page, then a space is placed between the two row cells on the first printed / print preview page (second page is rendered okay).. <pre><nowiki><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>table height</title> </head> <body> <table border="1"> <tr> <td rowspan="2"> 1st cell </td> <td> text in big, multi-page table cell... <ul> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>xxx</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> <li>yyy</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> footer cell... </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> "</nowiki></pre>

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