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Roy Sinclair · 08-06-2004, 10:14 PM

Why have a print version of the page at all? Using separate CSS stylesheets for printing the page vs displaying it on the screen you should be able to hide all the elements that are inappropriate for a printed web page and even show elements that might be appropriate for the printed page but not the screen version.
Read about media types in CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html

Setting page orientation should be done with CSS as well, too bad the browsers haven't bothered to implement even that basic a feature yet.
Part of the paged media specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#page-box

08-06-2004, 10:14 PM	PM User \| #2
Roy Sinclair Senior Coder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Wichita Posts: 3,880 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Why have a print version of the page at all? Using separate CSS stylesheets for printing the page vs displaying it on the screen you should be able to hide all the elements that are inappropriate for a printed web page and even show elements that might be appropriate for the printed page but not the screen version. Read about media types in CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html Setting page orientation should be done with CSS as well, too bad the browsers haven't bothered to implement even that basic a feature yet. Part of the paged media specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#page-box __________________ Check out the Forum Search. It's the short path to getting great results from this forum.