WH> Printing Web pages is basically a non-starter. You have pretty much zero WH> control over what the page will look like when printed, as it depends on all WH> sorts of factors out of your control (the users computer, printer, browser, WH> etc.).
Well, this is not overly true anymore. Most users are using IE5.5+ and many are moving to Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 6.x/7.x. Opera 5+/6+ are also pretty common. All these browsers support separate CSS stylesheets specifically for printing. Case-in-point, take a look at A List Apart: http://www.alistapart.com/index.html The page looks one way when you view it via the web browser. Now do a print preview. Notice the difference? It is because A List Apart has the following in their html: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/print.css" /> the media="print" is the key there. Take a look at that stylesheet for reference as to what one might do for setting margins and such. CSS also provides page rules like page-break-before and page-break-after for printing: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html#page-break-props http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/properties/print/pbbefore.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/pagebreakbefore.asp CSS is *much* more powerful than people realize. http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ Jake -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
