Re: Printing Web Page

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 08:01 -0500, Patrick Moloney wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:35 +0100, Frank Arensmeier wrote: > >> 6 nov 2008 kl. 21.21 skrev Patrick Moloney: > >> > >>> I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their > >>> browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't > >>> get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. > >>> The web page is static html and css, in a php file. > >>> > >> This might be a good starting point. > >> > >> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway > >> > >> //frank > >> > >> > > <link href="print.css" media="print" type="text/css" > > rel="stylesheet"/> > > > > Then set out your CSS in print.css to lay out the page without scrolling > > areas. > > > > > > Ash > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > Thanks all! So, to state the obvious (to you all) the solution is to > address my original question through CSS. That sounds good. > Ashly, your post is helpful. What is the next step, to display the page > on screen using the new stylesheet, then rely on the user to use the > browsers print button? > > Thanks, > Patrick > > Easier than that even, the browser automatically selects this stylesheet when the user presses the print button (or you issue a window.print() from javascript) because it recognises the media="print" attribute. You can use the media type for other browsers too, like audio, print, screen, projectors, etc. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk