[thelist] printing images (coupons)

Ben Gustafson cbg3 at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 6 10:53:57 CST 2002


Alistapart uses the media=print stylesheet for its "Miracle Print"
feature, to get rid of the right sidebar when printing. An example is at
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/hellxml/ . There are known bugs listed
in the sidebar.

--Ben

> >>I was wondering what my options are for an online coupon
> >>in .gif or .jpg format, to be printed out without using
> >>up alot of extra ink on the end users printer.
> 
> just off the top of my head, would a print stylesheet do the job??
> 
> use if to set display:none on the elements you don't want to print.
> Obviously will only work on browsers that support it (ie5 and above i
> think), but certainly a neat and efficient way, preferable to frames imho.
> 
> use
> 
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css">




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