RE: [WSG] Print Style Sheet Inconsistencies
> From: Chris Stratford > I dont know if I explained it correctly - or if you > understoood what I > meant. > But the problem I am having is the LIST BULLET are printing > in IE, but > not FF... Ah ok, I thought you had used trickery with background images. Fair enough, it looks like a wrong-ish interpretation on FF's part (by the look of it, it just ignores *any* images set via CSS). > Why wouldn't FF print List Bullets? > I believe that the bullets are crucial to the operation of ULs... > I may aswell use a tag with some s. To work around it at the moment, may be worth doing a separate print stylesheet which reverts to normal default bullets rather than list style images. Patrick Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] Print Style Sheet Inconsistencies
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Chris Stratford wrote: 1) Printing IGNORES all "background" attributes... This is understandable - but I didn't realise this until just now... So my LI background elements weren't printing (or showing in Print Preview which is how I check what it looks like) A small consolation: you can set your browser to print background colours and images. But yes, out of the box, these will indeed not be printed. 2) FireFox Ignores Custom LI background elements (the proper method with: list-style-image: url(../media/ul_li_point.gif); - not using a background image) This is very annoying, because basically if you want to include the custom element in a print now - I need to put the image inside the ... This must be a bug or a mistake on Moz's behalf?? IE will print the background LI element - which is good! I think that is the way it should be? Or is there a reason why Moz has done this? This is only a stricter enforcement of 1). It's a bit schizophrenic of IE to give users the option not to print background colours and images, but then happily still doing it for things like LI. In my mind FF is correct here. I dont know if I explained it correctly - or if you understoood what I meant. But the problem I am having is the LIST BULLET are printing in IE, but not FF... Why wouldn't FF print List Bullets? I believe that the bullets are crucial to the operation of ULs... I may aswell use a tag with some s. Anyone else have anything to say on the topic? -- Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neester.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] Print Style Sheet Inconsistencies
Chris Stratford wrote: 1) Printing IGNORES all "background" attributes... This is understandable - but I didn't realise this until just now... So my LI background elements weren't printing (or showing in Print Preview which is how I check what it looks like) A small consolation: you can set your browser to print background colours and images. But yes, out of the box, these will indeed not be printed. 2) FireFox Ignores Custom LI background elements (the proper method with: list-style-image: url(../media/ul_li_point.gif); - not using a background image) This is very annoying, because basically if you want to include the custom element in a print now - I need to put the image inside the ... This must be a bug or a mistake on Moz's behalf?? IE will print the background LI element - which is good! I think that is the way it should be? Or is there a reason why Moz has done this? This is only a stricter enforcement of 1). It's a bit schizophrenic of IE to give users the option not to print background colours and images, but then happily still doing it for things like LI. In my mind FF is correct here. -- Patrick H. Lauke _ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] Print Style Sheet Inconsistencies
BTW the navigation will be hidden from the Print, it is just so I can navaigate around the pages at the moment. Cheers! Chris Stratford wrote: Hey List, I am trying to develop a website at the moment and I want to have a great stylesheet for printing as well as a great layout sheet... http://inspiro.neester.com A problem I had was with LI images - I had 2 main issues here: 1) Printing IGNORES all "background" attributes... This is understandable - but I didn't realise this until just now... So my LI background elements weren't printing (or showing in Print Preview which is how I check what it looks like) 2) FireFox Ignores Custom LI background elements (the proper method with: list-style-image: url(../media/ul_li_point.gif); - not using a background image) This is very annoying, because basically if you want to include the custom element in a print now - I need to put the image inside the ... This must be a bug or a mistake on Moz's behalf?? IE will print the background LI element - which is good! I think that is the way it should be? Or is there a reason why Moz has done this? Cheers List! Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neester.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ** -- Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neester.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
