Thanks for this, Rob. It certainly looks promising, although I haven't yet had time to investigate in any depth. As far as browsers are concerned, my hands are tied; everybody in the institution for which I work usess IE6 until the powers-that-be tell them to use IE7 or Firefox or whatever.
That said, a first look on Google threw up this blog which looks encouraging: >>We are working hard to improve printing in IE7 but we'd like to share some >>approaches to ease the pain when printing with >> IE today [IE6]. >> First of all, content authors ... can change the layout of their pages when >> printing using the CSS @media rule Ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/10/428149.aspx W3 has lots of detail on @media rules .... .... so I'll give it a go. Thanks again to you and to Vishak for taking time. Best wishes Steve Rob Kennedy wrote: You can try using the "position" CSS property. An element whose position is set to "fixed" will appear at the same location on every page when printed. It will appear at the same place on the screen no matter what the scrolling location. You can use @media rules to change the element's position property based on whether the page is being rendered to the screen or to the printer. Set the "bottom" property to 0, and you're all set, I think. I have no idea whether Internet Explorer 6 supports @media rules or fixed positioning in print mode. I rather doubt it. You might have better luck with IE 7. I'm pretty sure Firefox does, and Opera almost certainly does. You should ask in a Web-design or browser forum for more information. -- Rob *************************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received. Content of emails received by this Trust will be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the specified exemptions, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and Caldicott Guardian principles. This footnote also confirms that, unless otherwise stated, this email message has been swept by Sophos Anti-virus for the presence of computer viruses. ***************************************************************************
