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CSS - Printer-friendly Website Using Print.css?
Hi,
I'd like to have each page of my website print out "scaled to fit" on regular letter-sized paper in landscape orientation. The size of the background element that all page content fits on is 950px w x 750px h. So, even if the user scaled one of the web pages onscreen, when they print it out on their inkjet, it should still print the full page, scaled to fit on the letter-sized paper. These are the steps I know to take, but I am missing some info. Can anyone help me fill in the missing steps/info? If you would keep it in bulleted (1,2,3) format that'd be easiest for me to understand (still new at web work). I really appreciate it! 1. Put this code in the head section of each html web page: <link href="print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" /> 2. Create a print.css file (What code goes in here?) 3. Link the print.css file to each html web page. 4. Upload all html web pages, and put the print.css file in the same root folder Thank you! Similar TutorialsNevermind Hi All I hope i have landed in the right forum. its kind of information overload for me. Anyway Here is my question I have a HTML page with large number of text boxes and buttons. I want to print this page but without the text boxes and buttons. Is there any easy way to do it? TIA Hello I am very new to css. Can someone tell me if css is the way to go when making a printer friendly page? or if there are any usefull tutorials on this out there that would be really helpfull. just so i know where to start from. Thanks Dear all, I want to add a print icon to my pages, which would print an alternate page (a printer friendly version). I have the following code: <link href="print.php?cli_id=2" rel="alternate" media="print" /> This works fine if I use the print icon in my browser, but if I use javascript:window.print(); within the page, it seems to ignore the alternate printer friendly page. My page appears in frames, and I plan to remove the browser toolbar and replace with a custom one in the page once the application is complete. Any ideas anyone? many thanks, Mark I am using CSS to generate a printer-friendly webpage for Internet Explorer. The same CSS however is not working with Netscape or FireFox. I am using the following doctype in my html file. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> The contents within the <DIV> and <P> tags I am trying to hide using Print CSS works correctly in Internet Explorer 6.0. However, the contents are getting printed when Netscape 7.1 or FireFox is used. Can someone help? Hi All : Currently i'm running in .NET platform together with VB.net and ASP. I faced a problem regarding to the PAGE BREAK html tag. The problem is when i want to print out a report, it will show with scroll bar and the report is very long. So what i have to do is to apply Page-Break-After/Before into the HTML. how am i know if the report already apply the Page Break function or not? And the only style i can use is CSS. Anyone familiar with this? It's urgent !! Hope can get anyone help asap. Regards, JeFFery Is there a way to use CSS to format printer output specifically for a sheet of paper such that page breaks can be formatted in at specific points? what I am wanting to do is have a reverse of this so that all the areas i contain within a given <div class="printerOnly"></div> is not shown on the screen but is ready to be printed, when the print button is pressed of course. and all the other areas are not printed. is this possible ? Code:
<style type="text/css">
@media all {
.page-break { display: none; }
}
@media print
{
.page-break { display: block; page-break-befo always; }
}
@media print {
div.screenOnly { display: none; }
}
@media print {
div.noborder { border-width: 0px; border-style: none; }
}
</style>
<div class="screenOnly">
this shows on the screen
</div>
<div>this is printed</div>
We're having a weird problem with a print stylesheet - a little bit of the javascript menu appear on the printed over the top of the content. eg: (http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/ch10.php ) - Print Preview this page and you will see "Chapters A-Z" in the middle. This seems to happen in all browsers. We've looked into many css solutions to the issue - but to no avail - we cant make the damn thing disappear. One long winded solution is to change the stylesheet to be built dynamically - so a call to ch10.php=true would build the page differently. But this seems to defeat the purpose of using a print stylesheet in the first place. Another long winded soltuion is to change the (Rather old) menu script - but that not really an option in this case either. So my question is - What happens when a browser prints a page? Does it send anything back to the server indicating it is loading the print stylesheet instead? (eg: Some sort of request variable) Or does the client's browser simple request the CSS file and reformat the page it has already downloaded? If so I could detect this event with PHP or Javascript to not load the offending menus when the print css had been loaded Hi guys .... I've been all over google looking for the answer and nothing I've tried works. I'm trying to make a print-friendly css page but my browsers (FF and IE7) both ignore the CSS and apply their own standards to it no matter what I do, it's driving me positively INSANE because it feels like I've done everything according to the instructions I found online for print CSS. Could you please take a look at my code and make some suggestions? You'd be saving my sanity. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"> <html xmlns="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>CLOColors3</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="mainstyle.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="mainstyleprint.css" media="print" type="text/css" /> the print css: Code:
@media print {
html{
height:auto;}
body{
background-color:#FFF;}
#header{
display:none;}
#body{
position:relative;
background-color:#FFF;
background-image:none;
height:auto;
width:auto;
left:0px;
top:0px;
z-index:0;
padding-bottom:0px;}
#textbox{
position:relative;
overflow:visible;
float:none;
margin-left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width:auto;
bottom:0px;
background-color:#FFF;
border:hidden;
border-color:#FFF;
z-index:0;
padding:0px;}
#textbox img{
display:none;}
.searchbar{
display:none;}
#linkbar{
display:none;}
.map{
display:none;}
.video{
display:none;}
#linktext{
display:none;}
#clear_both{
display:none;}
#menu{
display:none;}
#footer{
display:none;}
}
Currently the main CSS is being used and none of the elements I set to be "hidden" are hidden. Help!!! UPDATE: Ok, so IE seems to be PARTIALLY responding to the print CSS. It responds to all the "display:none;" commands but refuses to format the #textbox div according to my instructions, a border persists and the div has an overflow scrollbar for some reason. Firefox is still unresponsive. I have pages the when viewed for print in Firefox, show the page going below the page margin and not continuing to the next logical printed page. This image below, shows better than I can explain. Has anyone ever seen this before?...Any ideas how to make it preview and print correctly? Hello, Is it possible to create a CCS stylesheet that will not only produce a printer-friendly HTML page, but create that page in the form of columns like a newsletter? What I don't want are columns like a web page, that simply read straight down to the end of the page, giving little regard to the fact that text in column one extends to the next page before continuing to subsequent columns. I want the text to read down from the left column to the right column, and then continue to each subsequent page, always reading from the left column to the right column--just like a newsletter. I know I can use PDF, but I find those file huge and combersome, and would prefer to create this in HTML & CSS if possible. I searched this board using "printer version" & columns, and when I found nothing I searched just "printer version" and found nothing. I could search just using columns, but wading through several postings about creating columns for a screen doesn't seem productive. Thanks in advance. Angie I have this proplem on my site where it looks perfect in IE but in Fire Fox it looks like cr@p. http://www.bf2editor.org/ I want my CSS to look the same way on Fire Fox how can I fix this? This is my CSS doc Code: a:link {color: black; text-decoration: underline}
a:visited {color: black; text-decoration: underline}
input {font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;}
body {
background-color: 000000;
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}
hr {color: black}
.top{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background-image:
url('bar2.png');
background-repeat: repeat-x
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
font-style: arial;
font-family: arial;
}
.top2{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background-image:
url('bar2.png');
background-repeat: repeat-x
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
font-style: arial;
font-family: arial;
}
.top3{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background-image:
url('bar2.png');
background-repeat: repeat-x
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
font-style: arial;
font-family: arial;
margin-top: -48;
}
div#news
{
background-color: E5E5E5;
width: 140px;
margin-top: 30;
margin-left: 22;
}
div#login
{
background-color: E5E5E5;
width: 140px;
margin-left: 22;
margin-top: 2;
}
div#about
{
background-color: #CCCCCC;
width: 797px;
height: 500;
margin-top: -2;
margin-left: 52;
}
div#who
{
background-color: E5E5E5;
width: 140px;
margin-left: 22;
margin-top: 2;
}
}
div#info
{
background-color: 898989;
width: 600px;
margin-top: 1cm;
margin-left: 4cm;
}
div#info h2 { background: url( bar.png ); color: #ffffff;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
div#p { }
/*Page Layout*/
#maincontainer{
width: 969px; /*Width of main container*/
margin: 0 auto; /*Center container on page*/
}
#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 100px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
}
#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 160px; /*Width of left column*/
height: 836px;
margin-left: -990px; /*Set left margin to -(MainContainerWidth)*/
background: #898989;
}
.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}
Hi, All the content of my web page is in a table which is 760 pixels width. This is fine on the screen, but when printing, the right part is cut. I tried to set a new css print stylesheet <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print"> to avoid this problem, but it is not working. I tried to change the margin and padding, but there is no change. I still have the same problem. I tried many different configurations, but none of them worked... I did probably something wrong. I know that the page is properly printed if I change manually the print setting (file -> page setting) margin to 5mm, but how can I do it with the css, in order than everybody who would like to print the page has the complete page printed? Could someone help me? Many thanks Hello all, I have been trying to get my website to comply with googles page speed and yahoo's yslow. I had 2 seperate css files one for print and one for screen and they wanted them combined. I searched and searched for a way to do this and well I am going to post here how I got things to work in hopes it helps someone else. <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, print" > NOTE if I make it media="all" print does not work here is code for the main css file that combines the 2 into 1. NOTE also the print is NOT loaded until it is needed. @media screen { /* all screen CSS goes in here */ } @media print { /* all print CSS goes in here */ } U ask why a print.css file? simple it lets me force page breaks so images don't get cut in half. it lets me set a legable size font or larger than what is displayed on screen. Ok here is my problem... in the print.css I don't want to print my backround image. I want just a plain white background. I use a "sprite" to call picture frames for screen. These frames use part of my background image... thus they look bad printed. How do I in the print.css file tell it NOT to print this frame.png file? I assume I will use .noprint DISPLAY:none or something to that effect but where and how to impliment this is over my head and I cannot find any examples of how to do it. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help whonoes hi I have 2 questions: - how do I programmatically remove default browser header/footer - how do I print a header on every page thanks. Hello, I have tried to make a print page using CSS to set the display to none for areas that I don't want printed. This works fine in Firefox but Exploder always pritnts a blank page first. Has anybody had similar problems? Thanks Im trying to write a better office backend. My client does alot of mailings and would like to print an avery 5163(this is not set in stone) form with addresses and send in the mail. Right Now: 1. Generate List. (I wrote the web-app that does this). 2. Copy it from the generated webpage. 3. Pastes it to M$ Word. 4. Adjust any formatting issues. 5. Print the list. What I'd like to do is 1. Generate List. (I wrote the web-app that does this). 2. Print the list.(The page would be formatted with CSS to achieve proper scale and dimension) Does anyone know where I would go to even get started on accomplishing this task? Hi Could someone assist me in making a print stylesheet for this site please! http://calibrehr.com/new/ What I need is: just the logo to display (remove nav) The text in the orange block to span the width of the page Remove subnav Some how diplsay the text that is in the purple boxes below the main content text I am stuck as to what to do and could really appreciate some help Many thanks! Hello, I understand that there are at least 7+ media types for CSS and more may be added later. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html I want a special stylesheet for print but all other media should use the same stylesheet. Code: <style type="text/css" media="print">@import "print.css";</style> <style type="text/css" media="all except print">@import "main.css";</style> The following is a bad idea because it does not cover media that may be added in the futu Code: <style type="text/css" media="aural, braille, embossed, handheld, projection, screen, tty, tv">@import "main.css"; <style type="text/css" media="print">@import "main.css"; |
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