Re: CSS & printing: controlling WHAT is printed

Jay,

>All this without breaking the public's view of the web pages (Most
>seem to be using NS 4 or higher OR IE 4 or higher or AOL of various
>vintages)

Yes, it can be done, but no, NS <5 won't accept it.

http://www.sam-i-am.com/misc/TestSuite/css/mediatypes.html

As far as line breaks, yes, there is a css property for that, but support for it is poor. See http://www.w3schools.com/ for more on CSS as well as an on-line tutorial that lets you use CSS and view results. It's a lot of fun if nothing else.

Also, I understand about the style list being pretty quiet, but having two lists in the To line of your e-mail makes it a little tough to reply. Perhaps you could re-send it and then also keep responses to a minimum on your end as well? Otherwise you could be getting this 3 times. Just a thought on that one anyway.

HTH,
<tamara />

>QUESTIONS:
>
>1) Is it possible use CSS and the MEDIA stuff to use two style sheets
>(one for printing page content) WITHOUT BREAKING THE NORMAL STYLE
>SHEET AND SCREEN APPEARANCE in NS 4.x and higher and IE 4.x and
>higher?
>
>2) Is it possible to have certain page elements (particularly a) table
>rows and b) entire tables) _NOT_ print (and their empty space
>collapsed as if they were not there in the first place) using the
>CSS/MEDIA methods (or some other methods)?
>
>3) Is it possible to (using any method or browser or other program)
>print pages containing tables without splitting table rows.  (IE 5
>doesn't even mind splitting lines of text in half!)

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