Printing blank lines in IE 8, 9, 10 and 11 differs

Question

We have Credit Reports that are put in Iframe (and hidden fields) and when the users checks which ones they want to print, we take the hidden fields an populate one Iframe to print them all from.
Problem is, IE 8 prints fine, IE 9 removes many of the blank lines that used to be there and IE 10 pretty much removes all blank lines.  IE 11 seems to work ok though.
While IE 8 is being deprecated, IE 9 & 10 are still our majority users and am I trying to find a solution for them.
Is there something other than an iframe I should be using?
Here is the code:
for(count=0; count <= intCounter; count++)
vartabChecked = $get(printTab[count]);
if(tabChecked.checked ==
true)
varhdnPrintFieldName =
"hdnPrintFieldName"+
count;
vardoc = document.getElementById(hdnPrintFieldName);
    appendReports = appendReports + doc.value;
varprintDoc = appendReports;
    parent.iframeprint.document.open();
    parent.iframeprint.document.write(printDoc);
    parent.iframeprint.document.close();
    parent.iframeprint.focus();
    parent.iframeprint.print();
The report even looks different in the presented iframe (tabbed) in the various IE versions, though sometimes not exactly the same as the printed version in the same IE.
Cliff

Answer 1

Hi,
IE8 doesn't understand textNodes that are white space. the firstChild property is affected by any white space preceeding the Node.
use
&nbsp;<br/>
instead of
the above is a blank line.. (white space).
ensure that your external stylesheet links have a media attribute. Normally one would use a print only stylesheet (media='print') to show/hide visual elements when printing.
eg.
@media='print'{
#divCopyright{
display:block;visibility:visible;}
@media='screen'{
#divCopyright{
display:none;visibility:hidden;}
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