Hi guys, i just tried to print my websites on paper just to know how it would look but i just noticed that it misses some part of the right. That means that the text gets cut-off.
And also, since my layout is set in the background, it doesn,t print, is there a way to make them print by default?
Can anyone help out with that?
why would you want to print background images? they just waste ink.
print and screen are two different mediums. you should make a print stylesheet so viewers will be able to print your content in a readable, sensible fashion. some things so remove would be the nav, because navigation is useless on paper, etc, etc.
Also, it's because, I think, the printer doesn't understand margins.
So, like Ellada said, make another stylesheet without navigation, a background, or margins. But, link to a page with the stylesheet applied as something called printer friendly.
I don't think you'd need to link to the printer friendly page. Can't you change the media/format of the style sheets, so one is "screen" and the other is "print". Then, when the page gets printed, it reads the "print" style sheet?
Yes, although you may also want to have a link to a "printer-friendly" page, simply because having a "print" style sheet is transparent to the average user--they have no idea that their page might print differently.
The code for a print stylesheet is as follows, and should be put between the
tags of your page:Obviously the "href" attribute is whatever you need it to be.
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