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PHP stylesheet print switcher problem revisited?

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+2 A:

You don't need PHP code for determining whether to output the CSS file for print. By default the browser won't render the "print" stylesheet and should ignore the "screen" stylesheet when printing.

There may be some rendering issues: maybe the browser hasn't had enough time to render the page and feed it correctly to the printer.

A simplified solution would be:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/styles/print.css" media="print" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/styles/style.css" media="screen" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function print_it() {
if(window.print())
  onload = window.print();
else
  onload = window.print; 
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="javascript:print_it();" id="print-page" title="Print">Print This Page</a>
</body>

pygorex1 2009-11-19 06:44:27

I would like the user to see the printed page displayed first then the print dialog box.

jab 2009-11-19 07:12:20

In that case, on the printer-friendly version of the page, the media for "print.css" should be "print, screen". The browser will show and print using the same stylesheet

Salman A 2009-11-19 07:20:36

Also see the comment I made about "if(window.print())" statement

Salman A 2009-11-19 07:22:29

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