Printing issue with interactive block components

[cemms1]

A user reported they have issues with printing Guardian articles with graphics in them.

Example article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/15/water-related-violence-russia-israel-report

Screenshot:

[sunnyclimber456]

Because the interactive is, well, interactive (it only displays content after the page is loaded and it's scrolled to view), it doesn't appear in the print view. This is because the print view doesn't support dynamic elements on the page which rely on javascript - much like you can't print a YouTube video.

[paperboyo]

Well. Low priority this well may be! But.

It is not interactive, it’s static, doesn’t move, doesn’t react. And even if it would move that’s not the reason you couldn’t freeze it (see invention of photography). How we happen to load it is a (sad) implementation detail. It does appear in print preview, but just for the first graph, the latter two should appear as well:

The fact that you cannot print a Youtube video is lazy developers not sticking a thumbnail into print CSS (they added a play button though).

All in all, this is real and shouldn’t be closed. Print issues are surprisingly popular complaints with Readers’ Help and print CSS awareness with every new bit of work should match that of accessibility.

[sunnyclimber456]

Reopening to investigate a bit more! Thanks @paperboyo for your thoughts