Print In Style

Posted by Andrew Faulkner on October 23rd, 2006.

Andrew Faulkner is the admin at fadtastic. Andrew prides himself on standards-based, accessible web design in the city of Nottingham, UK. He believes in aesthetically pleasing accessible design and that 'standards compliant does not equal boring.'

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Printed articles from fadtastic should now be a lot more aesthetically pleasing thanks to a new print stylesheet. Why not print off “The Semantic Code” to see what I mean?

Thanks to Michael of Bright Matrix for the pointer.

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For those who may not know - you can attach more than one stylesheet to a webpage to set up separate styles for printing and on-screen viewing. In the head, just label one stylesheet media=”print” and the other media=”screen”. This is especially important when creating dark-background webpages - no one wants to print all that black!

Becky Whiteley
October 24th, 2006
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Becky,

Thanks for letting people know how to do it. I should have metnioned this in my post.

I find it useful to cut out most of the unhelpful stuff on a page for the print stylesheet. Try printing an article here to see what I’ve cut out.

Andrew Faulkner
October 25th, 2006
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