[thelist] Printing style sheet colors in IE

[rudy]

>Can anyone suggest a fix for this

hi dominick

if you were looking to fix it so that IE would print all the colours
correctly, i'm sorry, i can't help you

otherwise, consider having a print version that contains no style sheet,
i.e. will print in black and white, guaranteed

you would do this by having a link on your page that goes to, um, the same
page, but carries a flag on it somehow, that tells it (itself, the, um,
same page) not to include the style sheet

did that make any sense at all?

you can do it with a server script (like php, cf, asp, xyz), or with server
side includes (there was a thread on this yesterday)

you could also use the @media=print attribute in your style sheet, but i
can't say how reliable that might be

you can even do it with javascript, i think, maybe using conditional
document.write statements to include/exclude the link to the style sheet,
although i don't know how you would set the variable and then reload the
page

anyhow, with this kind of switch you do not have to have two versions of
the same page, a style sheeted one and a plain one, so no maintenance
problem -- but for all intents and purposes it sure feels like you do

it's also a real quick solution


helps?

rudy.ca