CSS - Printing In Landscape...

I have a page that displays text of an article. It's all contained in a <DIV>, of course.

I'd like the "Print" option the allow the user to print out just the article, and not the rest of the crap on the page (ads, navigation, so on.)

I know vaguely that you can have alternate style sheets for printing and other types of display, but how to include just the text in the output?

Hi !

I've read that it's possible with CSS to adapt the visual style of a web page on the output medium.
If I didn't understand that completely wrong, it means that with CSS I can format a String like "Hello World" to give him font size 10 in my browser and font size 20 if i print the page.

Is this correct ?
Does someone of you habe any kind of coding example therefore ?
That would be great

TIA
Gawan

Hello, I was wondering how to link to print a single ID without printing anything else...

thanx=)

Hiya,

This page http://www.magikwebs.co.uk/ranch/indian.html wasn't printing too good so I've set up a stylesheet for print only, and it has improved, but it still doesn't quite look right.

It leaves a big gap on page 2 and misses a line out. It looks 100% fine in Firefox. I guess it's an IE bug. Anyone know what it is and how to avoid it?

Thanks,

John

I have decided to develop CSS to style my web pages for printing. So far I am getting the results I desire from Firefox 2.0. However I am having an issue with IE 6. If your open the following page in IE:

cambridgema.gov/cdd/test/faq_test.html

Go to print preview, move to the second print page and scroll to the bottom you will see that the page break splits a single line of text between two printed pages.

Any suggestions about how to stop this?

Thanks

Cliff

Aaaah!
another problem...

now i have 2 divs, left one floated, and right one set that it's left margine distances him from left div.

when i print that page from FF it's ok, but when i try to print it from IE it looks like left one isn't floating - divs are one beneath other (right one shifted to right for that margin value).

what now?
thanks

Hey guys,

I'm working on a website and I have been notified by the client that the page does not print correctly in IE. Prints just fine in Mozilla however. I tested this and sure enough it cuts off the rightmost 100 or so pixels. The entire page exists in a table that is centered and set to be 729 pixels wide. I tried attaching an extra stylesheet:
Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="dummy.css">

but that has no effect. Even when I use the other stylesheet to move the content to the top left corner of the page with no borders, it still prints the page centered and lops off the rightmost 100 or so pixels.

Any ideas?

(telling them to print in another browser is not an option unfortunately)

Is there a way to forcefully print the background of a table cell?

I am generating an attendance list, and it would be kinda nice if it would print the backgrounds, just a simple grey shading to seperate the lines.

I am working on a printer friendly version of web pages. Generally when you print something from web, it prints, title, url, page number, etc. I know that you can configure your browser's settings to not print that, but is there a way through css or any other way to write your style sheet in such a way that those things are not printed?

Thanks,

Hey there,

I have a page to print a discount card - and if it is on one page there print preview works great.

(ex. http://www.rxclubcard.com/your_card.php )

However, if i try to put 5 cards sequentially, and then look at the print preview, after the first page of cards the 2nd and third pages do not show the cards and the print gets screwed up. I am running a for loop just to print 5 table rows. Why does this happen?

(ex. http://www.rxclubcard.com/5cards.php )

I would appreciate any help! Thanks guys

I have a div that contains multiple fieldsets and every two fieldsets I add a page-break-after style. After the first page prints, the legend tags for each fieldset on subsequent pages are displayed completely inside the fieldset border.

My code essentially passes HTMLTidy validation. The only issues I have are unclosed input tags, alt tags for images, using the "&" sign and no title tag.

If those issues aren't causing the problem, and I can't see how they are, I don't know what to check next.

Has anyone seen a template somewhere that can help style a page for printing to an index card?

Thanks,
James

Hi,

I am having problems with my code. I am trying to print a badge.

So what i am doing is in one cell of the table.
I have a image that i want to be centered in the cell and then i have text below the image that i want to be centered in reference to the image

The image is not centered and then the text is also not centered can someone tell me what i am doing wrong

Code:

table {
table-layout:fixed;
}

table.pagebreak
{
page-break-befo always;
}

table.nopagebreak
{
page-break-befo ;
}

td {
width:381.73px;
height:287.244px;
padding-left:24.56px;
border-left:white dashed 1px;
border-bottom:white dashed 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

.imglineup

{
text-align:center;
width:300px;
display:block;
}

.textlineup
{
text-align:center;
display:block;
}

 

.nametd
{
width:381.73px;
text-align:center;
height:287.244px;
margin: 0px 50px 0px 50px;
}

the cell of the table is 381.73px wide and the image thats centered is 300px wide

so here is my code

Code:

<tr >

<td class="nametd" >
<img src="/images/bdg.jpg" class="imglineup"><br/>
<div class="textlineup">
<span style="font-size:40pt;">Joe </span><br/>
<span style="font-size:40pt;">Smith</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:20pt;">CEO</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:21pt;">Quest Inc</span>
</div>
</td>

thank you

todd

Because these are difficult issues to resolve from W3C documentation, I thought I'd post my notes on printing for HTML (which apply likewise to saving HTML as PDF, etc., or loading HTML pages into further client applications, to be saved as other formats):


In printing HTML output, user agents ("browsers") will not honor usual CSS code, dedicated to screen output. Similarly, functions such as loading an HTML file into a document editor or saving an HTML page to PDF will not honor screen-dedicated CSS, either. Browsers are not equipped for instance with logic to determine whether to discard left and right margins or padding, surrounding the usual web page. Similarly, some content may be undesirable to print, as is. Images for instance may need to be scaled to a different size; font-sizes and weights may need to be adjusted, and so forth.

The whole trick to accommodating the separate needs of screen and print output is to deploy separate media-specific ("screen"/"print") style sheets. When you save an HTML page as PDF, or when you load an HTML page into a document, the client application honors the CSS of the "print"-specific implementation.



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LINKING IN SEPARATE CSS FILES:



For printing and file conversion functions to honor CSS, you have to link in media-specific style sheets as follows (media="screen" and media="print"):

<head>
<link href="css-pfmpe.css" type="text/css"rel="stylesheet" media="screen" />
<link href="css-pfmpe-print.css" type="text/css"rel="stylesheet" media="print" />
</head>



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ENCLOSURE OF MEDIA-SPECIFIC CSS CODE IN EACH FILE:



All the CSS declarations of your "screen" style sheet (css-pfmpe.css) must be enclosed as follows:

@media screen {

/* all css code here */

}



All the CSS declarations of your "print" style sheet (css-pfmpe-print.css) must be enclosed as follows:

@media print {

/* all css code here */

}



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GENERAL APPROACH TO MODIFYING THE PRINT-SPECIFIC CSS FILE:



Assuming you have refined your screen-specific CSS to intended behavior, you would generally save a separate, further copy of your "screen" style sheet as the latter "print" implementation. You would then change the top "@media screen" expression to read instead, "@media print."

The general focus of modification within the print-specific CSS file is as follows:

1. Eliminating outer, left and right margins or padding from exterior (enclosing) block constructs (within which your further block constructs are displayed).

This reduces the left and right margins to default printing or file conversion values (which you may have no control over, even in the client application's preferences/settings). A screen-specific CSS implementation for instance will generally limit itself to some column width which, when/if printed, may result in huge left and right page margins. These are reduced by your modifications of the print-specific CSS, so that paper is used to best advantage.

2. Re-scaling fonts.

Owing to translation differences, screen fonts are generally too large for printed media.

Depending on the screen sizes you display, you may:

a. determine a general scaling factor to apply to your font-size specifications;
b. and manually apply that scale to converted font-size specifications.

3. Re-scaling images.

You will generally want to apply a manually calculated scale to your images as well.

a. This means that standard images (used in many pages for instance) may require separate image-specific styles, indicating size; and that height and width specifications must be avoided in scaled images, in your HTML markup.

4. Indicating page break preferences.

Print-specific page break specifications (not needed in your screen CSS) indicate whether page breaks can be inserted before, after or within block content.

5. Indicating whether to print content.

Content which you don't want/need to be printed can be marked, "display: none;".





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TYPICAL CHANGES IN EACH PRINT-SPECIFIC CSS FILE:



The general manner of addressing each concern is:


1. Eliminating outer, left and right margins or padding from exterior (enclosing) block constructs (within which your further block constructs are displayed).

a. Follow a pattern of engineering with an outer enclosing block, determining either margins or padding, and/or width of the outer block.
b. Set the margins or padding to 0, and/or the width to 100% in the print-specific CSS.



2. Re-scaling fonts.

a. Determine a general scaling factor to apply to your font-size specifications.

For instance, if your screen output declares a font-size of 17px for a given style class, and experiments determine that the desirable size ratio for print output is 11px, open your calculator, enter "11," divide by "17," store the result (ratio) in memory, and multiply your further font-sizes by the ratio to get resultant sizes. You will discover a minimum size in this process. If the answer is less than the minimum, apply the minimum instead.

b. Once you have calculated each scaled font-size, use global search-and-replace, starting with the smallest sizes to convert, and progressing to the larger. This will avoid double-processing errors (modifying the result of previous scaling, versus your intention to scale only unscaled declarations.



3. Re-scaling images.

a. Apply image-specific styles, indicating height and width in the style declaration. Scale height, width and margins as needed for print output.



4. Indicating page break preferences.

Print-specific page break specifications (not needed in your screen CSS) indicate whether page breaks can be inserted before, after or within block content. These declarations are generally made for the base style, so that properties are inherited to subclasses (where exceptions can be declared, if desirable):

a. HEADINGS - TITLES, SUBTITLES

Break before, but not within, nor after (next paragraph sticks to title, or title breaks off to next page with succeeding paragraph).

hx.MyStyle or p.MyStyle
{
page-break-after: avoid;
page-break-befo auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
}


b. IMAGE

Break before or after, but never within image.

img
{
page-break-after: auto;
page-break-befo auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
}


c. LIST ITEM

Break before, after, or within (but not in area occupied by image).

li
{
page-break-after: auto;
page-break-befo auto;
page-break-inside: auto;
}


d. PARAGRAPH

Break before, after, or within (but not in area occupied by image).

p
{
page-break-after: auto;
page-break-befo auto;
page-break-inside: auto;
}



5. Indicating whether to print content.

a. Content which you don't want/need to be printed can be marked:

BaseClass or BaseClass.Subclass
{
display: none;
}

Typical objects of this treatment for instance might be RSS subscription links.



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PRINTING BACKGROUND COLORS OR IMAGES:


Note that according to W3C standards, printing of background colors or images is optional to the end user; and that by default, each are disabled in printer configuration options. It may be desirable to enable background colors or images for saving an HTML page to PDF for instance, while it may be undesirable for printed output (owing perhaps to vast consumption of ink).

To enable either for a particular purpose, access your printer preferences.

Hi there...I got a problem with printing my html page..why dosen't follow the setting the my html...When i print this page it prints in portrait..Help me pls..

Code:

<html><head><title>size</title>
<style type="text/css">
  @page { size:landscape; }
</style>
</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<p>This page is displayed on your screen as a normal web page.
However, if your browser knows the style sheet properties for page layout,
try printing this file by using the print command in the file menu
of your web browser.</p>

</body></html>