-----Original Message----- From: Bill Stephenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Printing from a Web Browser
I just spent several hours formatting a web page template with a Style Sheet only to find that when the browser sends the page to a printer it apparently tosses the CSS info and renders it in the default HTML. Very frustrating.... Does anyone know where this issue really lies? Is it the browser? I tested with several and they all seemed to do this, but I'm only testing with one printer, an H-P Deskjet 920c. Is it the printer? Or, is it a Mac OS X thing? I don't have a WinPC set up right now to test with. In any case, if anyone has any tips on providing consistency for printed HTML documents created with a perl CGI script and delivered across platforms, I could sure use them. Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> ----------------------------------------- Bill- I'm no expert on the subject, but I believe that CSS is media specific. I have multiple sets of style sheets, one for screen and one for print. I think you can create style sheets for all sorts of media (PDA, screen, print, etc). www.alistapart.com has a lot of resources for CSS but I think your solution is to add another CSS to the document for media. Example from one of my CSS/XHTML pages: <!-- <head> <!-- snip //--> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url("styles-main.css"); </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" /> <!-- snip //--> </head> //--> You'll see I have 2 style sheets, one for print and one for the screen. In this case its so that I can have different styles for print but I think it may be necessary even if I linked the same style sheet for the print media... Another thought might be the way the style sheet is linked. E.g using @import url() or another way. Again, I'm no expert and this isn't a CSS list but maybe this helps some... ~Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
