Re: FN-FORUM: Printing sites with CSS layout

date posted 20th November 2007 18:36

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 19:07 +0000, Paul Cooper wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just developed a standards compliant site and it goes all pear
> shaped when my client tries to print it. First off I've used
> background images for my menus etc to keep the HTML as lean as
> possible. It also looks like the floats mess things up. Is there an
> easy fix for this? No doubt this is optimistic ... but is there a
> bunch of styles I can apply when printing which resolves the issues?
>

You can include a print-only stylesheet with
media="print"

as in (say):

'

One strategy is just to turn off menus and the like in printed pages
with 'display:'none'.

Graham


> TIA
> Paul
>