Re: FN-FORUM: Printing sites with CSS layout

date posted 20th November 2007 21:38




On 20/11/07 19:07, "Paul Cooper" [EMAIL REMOVED] 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?
>
> TIA
> Paul

You an setup alternative style sheets that are for print only. We did a
fairly good one which turned all text black, switched off backgrounds and
removed the top and left hand menus leaving just the text and graphics. It
also sized the page to fit A4 pages in protrait (bit of trial and error
there) you just need to add the media="print" bit to you CSS style
declarations.