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Print-Friendly Web Pages and CSS
The CSS Articles and Tutorials section below has links to helpful CSS tutorials on creating printer-friendly pages with CSS. Making pages more print-friendly with CSS can make a world of difference, even eliminating the need for separate “printer-friendly” page creation and maintenance. Here are some tutorials to help with how to create stylesheets geared for printability.
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Tutorials on Print-Friendly Web Pages and CSS
- A Print CSS Primer [Tutorial by Kenji Ross, for Web Central, Tufts University. hat tip: Wise-Women discussion list. ]
- ALA's New Print Styles
Helpful article on how Eric went about creating the new print styles for the latest (4.0) version of A List Apart that went online September 2005. Builds on previous 2002 article, CSS Design: Going to Print, and Eric adds some interesting and helpful insight along the way. [Tutorial dated 09/19/2005, by Eric Meyer, for A List Apart.] - Complete CSS Guide: Printing
Detailed tutorial on style rules related to printing, such as the@pagerule and various properties to help with printing, margins, and more. [Tutorial by John Allsopp, for WestCiv. Hat tip: Laura Carlson, University of Minnesota: Web Design References » CSS » Print.] - Creating Great looking logos for your print stylesheet
Helpful tutorial with explanations and examples on how to provide a separate print-version logo. [Tutorial dated 07/12/2004, by Juiced Thoughts.] - CSS Design: Going to Print
Well-written tutorial by Eric Meyer on how to create a printer-friendly style sheet for your Web site. Includes how to hide navigation and other unnecessary elements, how to expose hyperlink URLs (not supported by IE but other newer browsers can use this), handling margins, fonts, and more. Excellent place to start with learning about CSS for print. [Tutorial dated 05/10/2002, by Eric Meyer, for A List Apart.] - Printing the Web
Valuable article on what to consider for user-friendly printable Web pages. Great insight, and important points made. Another must-read for going about creating your print-friendly style sheets and printable Web pages. [Tutorial dated 01/13/2003, by James Kalbach, for Boxes and Arrows.] - Printing Web documents and CSS
Helpful information about CSS and print. Includes what to include for print style sheets, such as hiding navigation, exposing hyperlink URLs, for example, how to handle footers and margins, page break considerations, and browser quirks. Also includes links to more tutorials and resources. [Regularly updated, page created by Jim Wilkinson, for the CSS Discuss Wiki.]
