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hello
I have sent several threads regarding this topic but I finally decided to change th efocus to get some better results. When I view my page online it looks awesome in both IE and Netscape but when I go to print preview mode and enable both browsers to print background colors and images the page that is displayed looks like crap and it prints the same. Is there any way to make the print page look the same or what causes the pages to change in print or print preview mode. thanks for any help. Matthe

 

[chris leeds]

because the background of cells and stuff like that are left to the browser
to decide it's best, in my opinion, to control printing with a separate
style sheet.
visit my site http://nedp.net/ and hit the file/ print preview you'll notice
that I've used the style sheet to eliminate the menu on the top and left.
if you view the source code of the page you'll see how I've called the style
sheets.
you can even follow the links to the style sheets and download them to see
how it's done. I'm no virtuoso with coding so you'll probably have similar
or better luck.
there are some good css/print articles at www.alistapart.com
HTH

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hello,
I have sent several threads regarding this topic but I finally decided

to change th efocus to get some better results. When I view my page online
it looks awesome in both IE and Netscape but when I go to print preview mode
and enable both browsers to print background colors and images the page that
is displayed looks like crap and it prints the same. Is there any way to
make the print page look the same or what causes the pages to change in
print or print preview mode. thanks for any help. Matthew

 

[Andrew Murray]

I might point out that web pages are designed for viewing online, not for
printing, so you could make a 'print friendly version minus the fancy background
colours, and if you have to use lower res. photos/pictures.

You could also make a word file/pdf file of the site content if you want a
printable copy, or just make a plain text copy.

hello,
I have sent several threads regarding this topic but I finally decided to

change th efocus to get some better results. When I view my page online it looks
awesome in both IE and Netscape but when I go to print preview mode and enable
both browsers to print background colors and images the page that is displayed
looks like crap and it prints the same. Is there any way to make the print page
look the same or what causes the pages to change in print or print preview mode.
thanks for any help. Matthew

 

[Andrew Murray]

this is fine, but your visitors might also be those with browsers not supporting
stylesheets..

 

[chris leeds]

I've got the sheets rigged to show text warning about "style sheet failed to
load or you've got a shamefully old browser" if that's the case.
it's simple, you just put a span with the warning on your pages and on the
style sheets you set the display property of the warning to "none". hence,
if a style sheet loads it's not displayed and if the style sheet doesn't it
is displayed. ;-)