Printing HTML

[andres_giraldo]

Hi!

I would like to know how can I print a data report correctly using page breaks and considering font-sizes, page margins and sizes, and printing from Internet Explorer / Netscape...

There's a method to do that?

I've heard about style pages, but I really didn't understand how to do that... there's another way?

Thanks for your help!

[Ultimater]

They are called Cascading Sheets(CSS).

There are two major kinds of Cascading Sheets, those that are used to Style-up the webpage on the user's screen and those that are only used to style-up the page when it prints using a printer.
Since you want to style-up the page when it prints, you will need to include an extra property in the CSS, media="print".

Here's an extra of how to hide a layer when it prints:

<style type="text/css" media="print">
.myLayerId{display: none;}
</style>

[andres_giraldo]

Hi Ultimater, Thanks for answer me!

Yes, I said before I've heard about Style Pages or Cascading Sheets to do that, but I don't know how to implement a break page, and where would I do that... I mean, how can I control the page size, keeping in mind the variable font-size of the many data groups on a report...

You know where can I find a sample CSS to look at, where this would be controlled???

Thanks!



They are called Cascading Sheets(CSS).

There are two major kinds of Cascading Sheets, those that are used to Style-up the webpage on the user's screen and those that are only used to style-up the page when it prints using a printer.
Since you want to style-up the page when it prints, you will need to include an extra property in the CSS, media="print".

Here's an extra of how to hide a layer when it prints:

<style type="text/css" media="print">
.myLayerId{display: none;}
</style>

[Ultimater]

I don't do much CSS fancy programming and this is not the right thread to discuss it either. Goto the CSS thread.