I am using simple CSS with modern browsers: IE 9 and Firefox 10.
<link href="/css/print.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
With this content it works.
#media print
{
#wrap, div.push, div.footer, div.barra_sopra_datatables, div.fg-toolbar, img{
display: none;
}
body {
font-size: 10pt;
}
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
}
I need to hide some columns of a table, so just for testing I tried
tr:first-child {
display: none;
}
but it hides all the tr elements.
I’ve alsove also tried td:first-child and table tbody tr td:first-child and other selectors, and all of them fail. I need to maintain compatibility with IE 8. kimblim.dk says that IE 8 supports these selectors, so why won’t it work? I’m not trying to set background color which many pointed out doesn’t work.
I think you cannot just don't display table cells.
display:none means, don't display it at all, so do as it would not have been there in the first place. Perhaps the browser thinks, if the first column is not there anymore, the next column is the new first one and then it hide this columns as well.
Try to give a table-cell a class hide-in-print and then
#media print {
.hide-in-print {
display: none;
}
}
Maybe #media print is not supported fully by IE. If this is true, try conditional comments.
Related
Is there a way in CSS to modify the parent element, given the first child?
In my case, this would be to format a table cell differently if the first child is a link.
<td>Hello</td>
<td>Go here!</td>
<style>
td { padding: 5px; } /* Normal cell */
?? { padding: 0px; } /* Cell with link as first child */
</style>
No, but you can think of a different approach and do something like:
td { padding: 5px; } /* Normal cell */
td a { margin: -5px; } /* Cell with link as first child */
There are many other ways to do the similar, of course.
CSS4 should offer a :has pseudo class which would do exactly what you wanted, but we need to wait for it.
Is it possible to remove the IE-specific behavior CSS property via a more specific rule or the !important declaration? Example:
.a-rule
{
behavior: url(/some.htc);
}
.a-rule.more-specific
{
behavior: /*no HTC*/
}
I realize that overriding CSS properties is undesirable, but I'm stuck here.
On Edit: I'm not sure where people are getting confused about this question. For all purposes, you can consider this already being an IE specific stylesheet. I'm asking how, if .a-rule above exists and is immutable, how can one remove the behavior via a more specific rule? A standard CSS equivalent would be:
.a-rule
{
border: 1px solid black;
}
.a-rule.more-specific
{
border: 0 none;
}
One can reset the border property for a subset of elements via a more specific rule. I'm asking how to reset the behavior property in an analogous way.
The default value is "none". See:
What is the *correct* way to unset the behavior property in CSS?
The solution:
.a-rule
{
behavior: url(/some.htc);
}
.a-rule.more-specific
{
behavior: none;
}
.a_rule {
border: 1px solid black; /* we know border is black */
behavior: url(/some.htc) /* we know something happen inside some.htc */
}
.a_rule.more-specific {
border: 0 none; /* we remove the border */
behavior: url(/some.htc) /* we remove something inside some.htc */
}
use different .htc file
Maybe use conditional tags for IE in your head
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
.a-rule {
behavior: url(/some.htc);
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
I have a page with lots of data, tables and content.
I want to make a print version that will only display very few selected things.
Instead of writing another page just for printing, I was reading about CSS's feature for "#media print".
First, what browsers support it? Since this is an internal feature, it's OK if only the latest browsers support it.
I was thinking of tagging a few DOM elements with a "printable" class, and basically apply "display:none" to everything except those elements with the "printable" class.
Is that doable?
How do I achieve this?
EDIT:
This is what I have so far:
<style type="text/css">
#media print {
* {display:none;}
.printable, .printable > * {display:block;}
}
</style>
But it hides everything. How do I make those "printable" elements visible?
EDIT:
Trying now the negative approach
<style type="text/css">
#media print {
body *:not(.printable *) {display:none;}
}
</style>
This looks good in theory, however it doesn't work. Maybe "not" doesn't support advanced css ...
Start here. But basically what you are thinking is the correct approach.
Thanks, Now my question is actually
becoming: How do I apply CSS to a
class AND ALL OF ITS DESCENDANT
ELEMENTS? So that I can apply
"display:block" to whatever is in the
"printable" zones.
If an element is set to display:none; all its children will be hidden as well. But in any case. If you want a style to apply to all children of something else, you do the following:
.printable * {
display: block;
}
That would apply the style to all children of the "printable" zone.
If you want to display some links etc. when in the browser, that you don't want to be printed. Furthermore you have some logos and letterhead info that only should go on the printed page.
This seems to work fine:
Example:
CSS:
#media print {
.noPrint {
display:none;
}
}
#media screen {
.onlyPrint {
display: none;
}
}
HTML:
<div class="noPrint" id="this_is_not_printed" >
<a href=links.html>
</div>
<div class="onlyPrint" id="this_is_only_seen_on_printer" >
<img scr=logo.png >
<img scr=letterhead.png >
</div>
A simple way:
<style>
.print-only{
display: none;
}
#media print {
.no-print {
display: none;
}
.print-only{
display: block;
}
}
</style>
I got here because I was curious about printing a chart generated by chart.js. I wanted to just print the chart directly from the page (with a button that does a 'window.print') without all of the other content of the page.
So, I got closer by using the technique from the answer here: Why can't I override display property applied via an asterisk? .
You have to apply the 'asterisk' to the 'body' element, not just by itself. So, using the example CSS that the OP (Nathan) added to the question, I changed it to this:
<style type="text/css">
#media print {
body * {display:none;}
.printable, .printable > * {
display: block !important;
}
}
</style>
Then adding that 'printable' class to the chart itself, as in
<canvas id="myChart" class="printable" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
Which removed all page elements on the printed output except the chart when the 'print' button is clicked (via this):
<script>
myChart.render();
document.getElementById("printChart").addEventListener("click",function(){
window.print();
});
</script>
So, perhaps this will help anyone that gets to this question via the googles.
Came across the same question recently and for me, this solution works just perfect:
#media print {
* {
visibility: hidden;
}
.printable {
visibility: visible;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
padding: 10mm;
}
.printable * {
visibility: visible;
}
}
Since visibility: hidden doesn't remove elements, as display: none does, it is possible to change it for desired elements separately.
Nearly all browsers support it. It might be advantageous to use the media attribute on the link tag.
Using display: none; in some of your rules would be an appropriate way to handle your situation.
I suggest to hide the element that you won't print:
HTML
<h1 class="no-print" >Welcome Just Screen</h1>
<div> I want print this section :)</div>
<div class="no-print">It's display only on screen</div>
CSS
#media print {
.no-print {
display: none;
}
}
I want to zebra-stripe a html table without using any js stuff or writing server-side code to generate even/odd classes for table rows. Is it ever possible to do using raw css?
It is possible, with CSS3 selectors:
tr:nth-child(even) {
background-color: red;
}
tr:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: white;
}
According to caniuse.com, every browser supports it now.
If all you're changing is the background colour, then the following would work, where test.gif is a 40px high image with the top 20px one colour, and the bottom 20 pixels the other colour. If you need to change any other css properties you're pretty much stuck.
table { background: url(test.gif) top; }
table tr { height: 20px; }
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/evenodd
CSS 3 nth-child. Since browser support is limited you can reproduce the behavior with Sizzle (included in, jquery for example)
(In CSS <= 2) Nope. Unfortunately there aren't any selectors (in CSS <= 2) that operate based on the position (in terms of the number it is within it's parent's children) which I believe you would need to do this with just CSS.
Note to self: read up on CSS3, already!
In http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#structural-pseudos you can find explanation and examples on using nth-child:
tr:nth-child(2n+1) /* represents every odd row of an HTML table */ {
background-color: green;
}
tr:nth-child(odd) /* same */ {
background-color: green;
}
tr:nth-child(2n+0) /* represents every even row of an HTML table */ {
background-color: pink;
}
tr:nth-child(even) /* same */ {
background-color: pink;
}
Good luck with browser compatibility - you'll need it.
There are hacks to make it work in IE (using JS) - I'll leave that sifting to you.
I am looking for a way to use the same stylesheet for print media as for the default onscreen layout. The advantage to me will be that I won't have to update 2 files every time I update the CSS. I would prefer to have one stylesheet and specify special rules for print media by denoting them somehow… It may not be possible, but I thought I'd put the question out there.
If you want the styles to be the same across all media, just define the common styles in the stylesheet as normal (i.e. not in any media rule) then put the media specific elements in the relevant rules.
If you want some styles to apply to a subset of media, you can do it like this:
#media print {
body { font-size: 10pt }
}
#media screen {
body { font-size: 13px }
}
#media screen, print {
body { line-height: 1.2 }
}
Here's a link to the relevant W3C page
There's this syntax, although I honestly don't know if it's supported across all browsers (it should be):
#media print {
body {
background: #fff;
color: #000;
}
/* etc */
}
See the media part of the CSS2 standard at W3.
I had this exact same issue wanting to use the #media print tags without the need for a seperate print.css file. my question is here.
How to extract #media print from main.css file without need for seperate print.css file
You can achieve this by pointing your style link for media printing to the same css file you have your main layout in and adding #media print tags to it. I am not sure though if this is best practice.
<link href="css/main.min.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="css/main.min.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" />
Now when I can have #media tags for print styling within the main css file. like below
.ContainerHeader {
align-items: center;
display: flex;
background-image: url(/images/header.png);
background-size: 100% 100%;
grid-area: ContainerHeader;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 99;
#media print {
.ContainerHeader{
display:none !important;
}
}
}