All,
I just found the list yesterday and am so glad there is such a resource! Jumping right in, I have what I hope is not a waste of everyone’s time question, but might help others. I have been looking at Zen Garden a lot the last couple of days and noticed that when I send it to the printer I get a very neatly formatted text page, stripped of all graphics. That is great! That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Even if I have “Print background Images” checked (FF on MAC OSX or FF on Win XP), I still get just the text. This led me to discover through other searches that you could link specific style sheets for specific devices. Very cool! Currently I’m working on several sites here (Sorry but they’re all behind firewalls on Dev servers; otherwise I would have provided links. Trust me I would have!) that are full of patient educational materials. I would love to have users be able to print my pages without graphics, and navigation elements, which just don’t matter when they walk away with their printouts. What currently happens is my page looks great on screen, it validates with the W3 validation tool, but when I go to print, what should come out in three pages (as if printed from Word), comes out as three pages of the following. First page is background color and just a header. Second page is my text and navigation, but the text gets cut off at the bottom of the page. The last page is just the footer with background color. That second page where the content gets cut off never continues to another page! Arghh! All this happens even though everything is surrounded by a wrapper div. I’ve tried to imitate the structure of Zen Garden’s markup in a sample page (content first, navigation last) which is MUCH different from how I would have normally laid out the page and am getting much different results. I.e. body text is shoved to the right as if it were still in a fixed width column, disclaimer/footer text flowing along the left hand side of the body text. I would normally code top to bottom, left to right, which would put navigation elements before body text. I’m going to assume that the way Zen Garden was coded follows web standards, which honestly, I’ve never really looked into (Feel free to chastise). Would working in a web standards compliant way, lead me to the path of enlightenment when it comes to my end users being able to print my pages, stripped of graphics? Or do I really only require a simple print version for the CSS that will override all my web rendering formatting? I realize this is a rather broad based question, feel free to give broad answers, as I didn’t want to deluge this post with 50 questions. And before you suggest it, I do plan on picking up a Web Standards book this weekend anyway. I’m just really curious if I need to relearn how to code pages with CSS in order to solve this printing issue. Thanks everyone! Luke Ling No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.22/922 - Release Date: 7/27/2007 6:08 AM ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
