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CSS - Web 2.0/css Using Css To Print Labels
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? Similar TutorialsThis will be tough, but I'm confident CSS can handle exactly what I need. I want to print onto labels. Actually, they're return address labels (1.75" by 0.5") to be specific. How do I set up a layout with the following specifications? Quote: Sheet Size: 8.5" x 11" (standard sheet of paper) Dimensions: 1.75" x 0.5" (dimensions of each label) Spacing Between Labels: Vertical Spacing 0", Horizontal Spacing 0.28125", Vertical Pitch 0.5", Horizontal Pitch 2.03125" Margins: Top 0.5", Bottom 0.5", Left 0.33", Right 0.33" Can someone give me a starting point and I'll try to figure it out? I'm lost on it. Thanks 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? Hi, I have labels that aren't displaying properly in IE. I have used similar code in many parts of the site without problem. Please see this page in IE6. The label contents don't display If I move the labels outside of the content div it does display... Code: <div id="content"> <div id="tempcontent"> <div id='confirmation'> <p><label>Email address:</label>james@got.com<br></p> <p><label>Duration of stay:</label>2 day(s)<br></p> <p><label>Number of guests:</label>4<br></p> <p><label>Arrival date:</label>2007-01-03 00:00:00<br></p> <p><label>Departure date:</label>2007-01-05 00:00:00<br></p> </div> Code:
#content {
position:relative;
background-color:#ffffff; /* dcba72 */
margin-top: -1em;
#tempcontent {
margin: 4em 4em;
}
#confirmation {
margin: 2em 8em;
border: 1px solid #781351;
padding: 1em 3em;
}
label
{
width: 15em;
float: left;
text-align: right;
margin-right: 0.5em;
display: block;
color:black;
}
Does anyone know what's going on? [note: I created a new thread as my example has shifted a bit ... it was 'white-space and checkboxes'] The site http://www.thedancegypsy.com/test/checkBoxes.shtml contains two rows of checkboxes that are *supposed* to (a) indent any wrapped lines, and (b) keep each label with the corresponding checkbox when it does so. The only difference(s) in the *sources* for the two rows a - in the first, the html for each checkBox is written on a separate line, but in the second they are separated by only a space. - box ids were different to allow for html validity check. Each paragraph has the form: <p style = "margin-left: 2in; text-indent: -1in;">...(labels) .. </p> Each label/checkbox has the form: <label for="boxA2"><input type="checkbox" id="boxA2" > Combo A</label> Alas, on my IE brower (5.2 for mac on mac os 10.3), when changing screen sizes * the first row manages to keep each label with the corresponding checkbox -- but fails to indent. * the second row indents (reasonably well) but totally fails to keep the checkboxes with the labels. Any ideas???? Notes: This test started with an attempt to get a similar line of checkboxes to render correctly on a windows IE environment...] All lines are now handwritten, rather than the javascript coded lines I had in my earlier example... separation is now via non-breaking space rather than nowrap spans. If duplicate ids are allowed, the result is the same I don't know how to get my radiobuttons, defined as, Code: <div id="options">
<fieldset id="fset">
<legend>Pick car</legend>
<label for="id_gm">
<input type="radio" value="gm" id="id_gm">gm</label>
<label for="id_vw">
<input type="radio" value="vw" id="id_vw">vw</label>
</fieldset>
</div>
lined up so they a Floated to the left; Each choice (radiobutton and its label) on its own row; With the radiobutton prior to its label; and With the radiobutton and its label aligned horizontally. Would be grateful for your help. This seems so simple, yet my hour of searching has yeilded nothing!! I simply want to make the numbers that appear for each <li> to be clickable. I tried moving the ,a> tags outside the <li>, but that doesn't work. I tried (to no avail) in CSS: li a {list-style-position:inside; } ans: ol li a {list-style-position:inside; } also i added a property that enabled me to click anwhere to the right of the number across the whole page, but I forgot now what that was. In the simplest illustration, I would like to be able to click on the no. 1 from the HTML code below. <ol> <li><a href="#a1" /></li> </ol> Hi I'm trying to get the labels of my form to appear above their input boxes and for the input boxes themselves to be side by side (basically a horizontal login form) I've used the label tag in my form after doing some research which looks like: Code: <form> <label for="email">Email</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" /> <label for="password">Password</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="password" /> </form> In my CSS I have a label property defined as: Code: label {
display:inline-block;
}
But the outcome is this: Could anyone please shed some light on my problem? Thank you Hi all! I'm wondering for quite a while now... when you put text or a label next to a radiobutton, it never lines up nicely. The (label) text is always a bit lower then the radiobutton. A common solution to this is using tables. But I don't want to use this "hack". I've also tried CSS margins and padding, but these don't seem to help. Is there any elegant way out there to get the text nicely lined up with a radiobutton? Thanks! Hi, I am trying to find a way to print address labels from a web page. The page will either be ASP or ASP.NET. Is it possible to get enough control over the print layout to create consistent labels? The browser will be IE6 and the printer will be printing onto standard address labels that you buy for this sort of thing. If it is possible, could someone please point me in the right direction, I am stumped. Thanks, Matt Hey! I got some issues in IE8 (not checked IE7,6) When I press the "send" button and the form validates, the bottom 2 labels and a checkbox move down about 15px. I think it has to do with my positioning of the calendar icons above and the error messages, havent been able to fix it tho. http://www.borgweb.se/cvh/boka_rum.php is the address. The site is in swedish so bare with me, I think you will understand what I mean once you submit the form. If I then press ctrl-a or select everything with the mouse, the labels go back to their original position. Any ideas of what can sort this is welcome! Thanks! Hi, I am having trouble clearing labels and fields. I have set up my labels to float left and my fields to float left. When i have more than one set of label and field, they do not align underneath each other. Please could someone suggest the best way to clear the label and field so the next row will display correctly? Thanks Hello there, I Have a radiobutton with a label beside it. It only isn't aligned that nicely. The radiobutton it self is a few pixels heigher then the label it self. Now i have partitialy fixed this by using float: left on the radiobutton(s) itself. But it doesn't work in all browsers. Is there some kind of standard way to fix this? Thx in advance. I'm having some trouble formatting the radio button label text size (as well as the button size). my CSS class is Code:
.style_xxs_normal {
font-family: Arial;
font-size: xx-small;
font-weight: 400;
}
my radio buttons are Code: <tr><td width='100%' align='left'><input type='radio' name='answer' class='style_xxs_normal' value='1'> Answer 1</td></tr> <tr><td width='100%' align='left'><input type='radio' name='answer' class='style_xxs_normal' value='2'> Answer 2</td></tr> Thanks for any suggestions. 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. I've just created a print stylesheet for my site but I'm having troubles with it working in Firefox. It works great in ie but in Firefox when a page goes onto more than one page the first page is printed but not the rest. http://www.skillair.com/employers/employers.asp http://www.skillair.com/stylesheet/print.css Any help would be really great. Thanks Jemes Hi all. This is the first time that I am using a print css to define the style of how my web page is printing. However, I am having trouble setting up a style sheet that [IE, Netcsape, (PC) ], [Safari, IE and Netscape (Mac)] all recognised and conform to. Particularly, my div tags for some content seemed to work, while some other div tags do not work. My working file is online: http://www.cfdr.co.uk/kw/examples.htm. My print css file is: http://www.cfdr.co.uk/kw/css/print.css I have 2 major problem. Problem 1: Div tags are not recognised I want to hide the div ids (navigation1, navigation2, navigation3, navigation4, navigation5, navigation6, credit, left content). For example, I have used: #navigation1 {display:none;} in my print css file. However, none of the browsers recognised this. My menu still keep apprearing on my print preview. Problem 2: As a result of the div tags not recognised, I am unable to hide the left columm, which originally contained the logo and image. This has left my text on the right columm to be cut off at the margins. I do not know why this happens. Please, does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Joyce |
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