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Bug 8601 - include footer when printing
Summary: include footer when printing
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8600
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview...
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Reported: 2010-01-03 19:14 UTC by Don Brutzman
Modified: 2010-10-22 10:28 UTC (History)
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Description Don Brutzman 2010-01-03 19:14:44 UTC 
4.4.9 The footer element

Similarly is it appropriate to say something like

        The footer can also be included at the bottom of each
        corresponding page when printing an HTML document.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-11 10:53:54 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't think I've ever seen anyone print what would end up in a <footer> on multiple pages. That would be quite strange.
Comment 2 Don Brutzman 2010-01-26 07:30:25 UTC 
see discussion on preceding bug 8600#c2
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 02:48:12 UTC 
I'm merging this with 8600 since if one change is made, so will the other.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8600 ***