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Now printable

This morning I got a request to make the layout of this page more suitable for printing.  I've gotten the request before, but this time I finally got a round tuit.

A small bit o' css later, and what-you-see will no longer be what-you-print.

For some browsers (e.g., Mozilla 1.3, IE 6), you can preview this with the following links: print display.

I'm not really sure what's causing it, but something in your display stylesheet (I'm assuming) is causing everything after the main article text to not render in my browser, which is Opera 6.05.

If I switch into "User Mode" (that is, disable your stylesheet) it renders everything okay using my user stylesheet.

Nice print stylesheet, though. I wish more people would make print stylesheets rather than making "Printable Version" links.

Posted by Martin Atkins at

While I don't have Opera installed, everything appears to validate: 1579.html blog.css print.css.

Valid XHTML 1.0 Valid CSS 2

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Why don't you upgrade to Opear 7.x, Martin?

Posted by Asbjørn Ulsberg at

Excellent!

Posted by Ziv Caspi at

works on ie ;-) nice

Posted by Daniel Fisher at

Won't somebody please think of the gerbils?

There is a veritable plethora of overlapping concepts here, and enough snake oil to choke a crack-addled gerbil.... [more]

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Just a note, this does not render properly in IE 5, the left sidebar is gone, the right sidebar is gone, and the middle content (which retains its left margin, spans all the way to the rigth side of the screen.  Oh, and the Add your comment section is unavailable if memory serves.  Quite strange really.

Posted by Lou at

IE 5: the Netscape 4 of a new generation!

Posted by Mark at

Fixed for IE5.

For Netscape 4, I take an entirely different approach: disable the stylesheet entirely.  If you are running IE or Mozilla, you can preview what that looks like by pressing here

Posted by Sam Ruby at

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