*::first-line selector in print styles crashes IE11 print / print preview

[dealerweb]

There seems to be a bug in printing with Internet Explorer. It's not a bug in my code, because the website of Bootstrap v4 also doesn't work. My system run with W10 + IE11. Does anyone have the same problem or a solution?

[acshef]

Can you be more specific? What's the bug? Can you provide screenshots of what you're seeing vs what you're expecting? Have you tried with other browsers/systems?

[dealerweb]

I can print in all other browsers (chrome, firefox, opera, edge). It's only the ie11. The print-preview shows nothing and works and works until the browser crashes. If i print directly, nothing happend.

The bug is in alpha3 + alpha4. With alpha2 it works fine.

[slavanga]

Related: h5bp/html5-boilerplate#1799

[dealerweb]

@slavanga Thanks, this was the solution.
I hope, the dev-team will change this in future releases.

[slavanga]

@y2wde you should keep this issue opened so that it can be fixed.

[patrickhlauke]

if the issue is due to :first-line, then it seems the fix needs to happen upstream in https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css

[slavanga]

@patrickhlauke This is not an issue with normalize. The print styles are from the HTML5 Boilerplate.

[patrickhlauke]

ah sorry, got confused when i skimmed the dist CSS. been a while since i looked, but it appears we've copied the print styles from HTML5 Boilerplate wholesale with changes, so we'll need to tweak at BS end https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/scss/_print.scss

[patrickhlauke]

note that #20821 fixes the crashing, but printing behavior is still borked in IE11 it seems (won't print more than 1 page). but that's a different issue, which should be filed once #20821 is merged

[niteraven78]

There's a change in Windows Update "September 29, 2016 — KB3194496 (OS Builds 14393.222)":

Addressed issue causing “Print all linked documents” to not work in Internet Explorer 11.

Does that fix it?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3194496

[patrickhlauke]

Does that fix it?

no

[cvrebert]

but printing behavior is still borked in IE11 it seems (won't print more than 1 page). but that's a different issue, which should be filed once #20821 is merged

@patrickhlauke Care to file that issue now that it's been merged?