I have the following CSS for my print style:
* {
display:none;
}
#printableArea {
display:block;
}
I expected this to hide all elements, and only show the printableArea, however everything gets hidden. In print view, all I get is a blank page.
I have it included properly in the HEAD, with media="print" on this particular stylesheet.
If an element is not displayed, then none of its children will be displayed (no matter what their display property is set to).
* matches the <html> element, so the entire document is hidden.
You need to be more selective about what you hide.
You're taking the right general approach, but you want to use visibility: hidden instead of display: none so that you can set child elements to be visible.
See Print <div id=printarea></div> only?
html body * {
display:none;
}
#printableArea {
display:block;
}
Also, you may need an !important on #printableArea, but probably not.
Answering because I found this question while searching for this
Instead of 'display: none' you can use :
* {
visibility: hidden;
margin:0; padding:0;
}
#printableArea * {
visibility: visible;
}
source : https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/need-to-print-a-certain-div-and-ignore-everythign-else-on-the-pa
You might try popping it up on top of everything. This solved 90% of my problems, then I just had to make a .noprint class and add it to a few straggling elements.
.print_area{
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
z-index: 9999;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
If you want to use JavaScript, you can try this simple snippet that doesn't even require jQuery:
document.body.innerHTML=document.getElementById('printableArea').innerHTML;
make a div wrap everything after the body tag. Before the wrap div, put the visible item's div.
I had to do this to make a simple username-password page, and needed to hide everything, except the half-opaque sign-in form's background. So, after the correct credentials were typed in, the form would animate out, and the half-opaque page cover would animate out, and finally, EVERYTHING aside would show up and you could use the page normally.
There is a one-line solution:
With JQuery
var selector = '';
$(document.head).append($('style').text('*{visibility:hidden}' + selector + '{visibility:visible}'));
Without JQuery
var selector = '';
document.head.appendChild(Object.assign(document.createElement('style'), { innerText: '*{visibility:hidden}' + selector + '{visibility:visible}' });
In both examples, set the selector variable to the selector you want. For example, div#page:hover or p.class1,p.class2
#media print {
* {
visibility: hidden;
}
/* Show element to print, and any children he has. */
.svgContainer, .svgContainer * {
visibility: initial;
}
}
Make sure any children elements are also visible. Remember that invisible elements still influence positionning of other elements in the page. In my (simple) case, I just added position: fixed; on .svgContainer (somewhere else).
Simply you can use the following code and assign "hide" class to that specific element you dont want to display on print page
<style type="text/css" media="print">
img
{
display:none;
}
.hide
{
display:none;
}
</style>
There is another clean way to achieve this:
* {
visibility: hidden;
}
#printableArea {
visibility: visible;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
}
That way you're going to get only the #printableArea element in the print view and all of the other elements will be hidden.
Related
Given the div:
...
<div id='section-to-print'>CONT
/*Content*/
</div>
...
And the CSS
#media print {
* {
-webkit-transition: none !important;
transition: none !important;
}
body * {
visibility: hidden;
}
#section-to-print {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
#section-to-print, #section-to-print * {
visibility: visible;
}
}
Whenever I print (e.g. ctrl+ p)it shows only whatever is in the /content/ region (as expected). However the content is duplicated. If I emulate the print media in chrome it shows correctly. Also, I noticed if I remove/change the position: fixed; in the CSS makes it work "properly" (not duplicating), but at the wrong position.
I couldn't find any similar problems on google and honestly I never ever saw this behavior before.
Does anybody know why is it duplicating the content when I try to print?
Also, I tried on more than 1 computer, same behavior on all.
I found a solution having the same problem. Please, try to use position static instead of fixed! Wierd right?
A few more information about the problem:
http://css-101.org/fixed-positioning/index.php
I've been trying to hide everything apart from the main content on the following Facebook post
I've been injecting the following css without luck - can someone please help?
html body * {
display:none;
}
#contentArea {
display:block;
}
Below is a screenshot of what I'm after.
With body * you are hiding every child.
With #contentArea you are showing this block, but still - body * persist for child elements AND parent elements.
You have to specify much more rules to hide everything else.
As mentioned before, you cannot display an element which has a parent that was hidden. Anyway, Facebook's layout is simpler than I thought, all you have to do is hide two elements: the header and sidebar. This of course assumes that a user is not logged in.
Inject this CSS
#pagelet_bluebar, #rightCol {
visibility: hidden;
}
Result:
Result (user logged in):
To hide the chat sidebar, you can add #pagelet_sidebar to the CSS.
#pagelet_bluebar, #rightCol, #pagelet_sidebar {
visibility: hidden;
}
To conclude: Hide the main parts instead of everything, or use jQuery to target all except your element as suggested by #MaVRoSCy.
Thanks everyone - the following seems to be the combination of everyone's answers:
#leftCol, #pagelet_bluebar, #rightCol, #pagelet_bluebar {
visibility: hidden !important;
display: none !important;
}
html ._5vb_.hasLeftCol #contentCol {
border-left: initial !important;
margin-left: initial !important;
padding-left: initial !important;
padding-top: initial !important;
}
._5vb_, ._5vb_ #contentCol {
background: none !important;
}
I know that has been asked before, but I find no clean way of overriding this CSS:
.ui-input-search:after {
content: "";
height: 18px;
left: 0.3125em;
margin-top: -9px;
opacity: 0.5;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
width: 18px;
}
I need to leave ui-input-search on the element, but can add my own class, like:
.ui-input-search-no-pseudo:after {
content: "";
}
Question:
Is there an easy way to remove "pseudo-css" without having to overwrite the CSS line by line?
Thanks!
As far as I can tell there is no other way than to override all properties. The styles are defined on the element, they won't just disappear because of another selector that targets the element.
If you only want to remove the pseudo element from the page you can do content: none.
Added from comments below:
The difference between content: "" and content: none is that content: "" produces a pseudo-element with no content (i.e. an empty pseudo-element), whereas content: none prevents the pseudo-element from being generated at all.
Here content: ""; doesn't affect at all if you want to remove that pseudo you have to use content:none; it will remove previously added pseudo content.
content:none;
If that doesn't help you can also try :
display:none;
if still, it doesn't work then you could try the below, but I never suggest you use !important
display:none !important;
here is working jsfiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/ganeshswami99/52duu0x8/1/
I am trying to print a part of my entire html document. I am using the below css to do that.
#media print { body * {
visibility: hidden;
}
#print-area * {
visibility: visible;
}}
It is working but as visibility:hidden reserves the space, it is printing a blank page and my content. I was trying to use :not selector from css3 to set all other divs but "print-area" to display:none as below,
div:not(#print-area){ display:none; }
This will result into a print of blank page. Looks like :not selector is not working with media print. Any suggestions/solutions for this will be most welcome.
Thanks
visibility: hidden; holds the space and it is hidden only. Show use display: none; to your body.
#media print { #wrapper {
visibility/: hidden;
display: none;
}
#print-area {
visibility/: visible;
display: block;
}}
Edit you should also declare for screen
#media screen { #wrapper {
display: block;
}
use this :
:not(#print-area){ display:none; }
Change the style rule for print media to be
:not(#print-area){ display:none !important; }
It's likely that any standard css reset in play on the page is outranking this style rule.
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;
}
}