Hi all
I'm having problems with a "print" style sheet and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. Also, I would appreciate it if people on Windows machines would check out if the printing style sheet works okay.
Apologies in advance - I'm not sure if my explanation of the problems makes much sense.
I am redesigning a web site which you can see at http://www.brighton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn/new/html/home/home.html (launching early next month so excuse glitches and content)
At home I am experimenting with a print style sheet so that, when a visitor prints, various bits and pieces don't appear on the printed version and a new title bar shows up.
Here's the "test" page: http://homepage.mac.com/artistry/adc/html/home/home.html which has the "print" media style sheet attached.
I am using Safari on Mac OS X 10.3.2. When I go to print, the stylesheet works perfectly, but... in the actual web page the Flash menu bar disappears!
I am suspecting that this is because in the Print style sheet the div in which the Flash menu sits is "hidden", but why is the browser applying this to the screen style sheet? In the brighton.ac.uk site this problem does not occur so it *must* be something to do with the print style sheet.
Now onto the next problem. In Internet Explorer 5.2 and Netscape 7.1 on the Mac, the menu doesn't disappear in the browser and, correctly, doesn't print - but sections of the page which are marked as "hidden" are printed - check out the menus on the last page. They shouldn't be there! The print style sheet *is* being applied because the page header appears. In addition, in these two browsers, the text is printing as Times, which it shouldn't be.
Why are some items visible when they shouldn't be? And why is font styling not working?
Incidentally, if you want to see what the site looked like before I started redesigning, go to http://www.brighton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn
Ignore the messy style sheets - there is a lot of rationalisation to be done! (I'm assuming having lots of redundant styles that need to be stripped out isn't causing the problems?) I've been doing this pretty much part time and teaching myself CSS along the way.
Hope someone can decipher my problem and offer suggestions!
Jonathan
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