Is there a way to run javascript at print time? I know of the IE onprintbefore event, but we use mostly Firefox.
What I'm trying to do is get element positions as they would be in the page rendered for printing so I can insert appropriate page breaks, basically to accomplish what the CSS "page-break-inside: avoid" attribute would do if it were implemented.
It seems that if I could force the javascript to run a separate time for the print rendering, I could do this.
Better use CSS media rule. Provide a print stylesheet.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print">
Also see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/.
You may be able to do this as a Firefox extension, otherwise, once you print, the javascript is out of the picture and the page is being sent to the printer.
The other option is to just send the page to the server and have it return a PDF for printing.
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Usecase: Clicking on a link opens an overlay with some content in it. There are many such links on the page, each of which has a corresponding content that loads inside the overlay. User should be able to print only the particular content.
Approach: On clicking the link, I am setting a class called "printer" to the body. Inside print.css, I am hiding all the page content EXCEPT what I see inside the overlay. On closing the overlay, I am removing the class from the body.
Issue: Everything seems to be working fine on FF and IE. On Chrome the print dialog hangs, whereas on Safari, I see a blank page.
Any help would be appreciated to understand what I might be doing wrong OR if any other approach exists.
you can use media type to apply a stylesheet that is used only for print.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="yourPrint.css"/>
or use #import within your current stylesheet
#media print {
/* style sheet for print goes here */
}
for more info regarding this, check out w3.org http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html
and for a less technical albeit less reliable source, http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
Use Print CSS
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" />
I created a stylesheet for jquery mobile using the ThemeRoller tool. It looks really great on the ThemeRoller page. In my mobile app... not so good. I think there must be some conflicts in definitions between my stylesheet and the jquery stylesheets.
Rails layout file:
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "jquery_mob_theme.min", "jquery.mobile-1.1.0.min", "stylin.mobile" %>
For those of you not familiar with rails it is rendered:
<link href="/stylesheets/jquery_mob_theme.min.css?1338304118" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/stylesheets/jquery.mobile-1.1.0.min.css?1338312435" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/stylesheets/stylin.mobile.css?1337894014" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Is the only way to deal with this to wade through thousands of lines of css to look for conflicts? Is there a css debugging tool that will detect that in a stylesheet? I could change the jquery file names to scss and then roll them into one stylesheet. I am familiar with Firebug and Web inspector which check styles on one page. That wouldn't help... right?
Thanks.
Unfortunately for you, All of css is based on inheritance so there is no automated way of knowing of a conflict or if an object has just overriden the styling of a parent. I think the best bet is to force rails to show the mobile version of the site on a desktop pc and then you can use the Google chrome inspector. It will show you all styles applied to a specific object. It only shows relevant styles with line numbers in the stylesheet so you aren't stuck wading through css. You can also edit it in chrome to see what your changes will look like before you change your stylesheet.
Firebug (an extension for Firefox) can show all styles applied to any given element, as well as which styles are overridden by other styles. You would have to view your mobile site from a desktop browser, but this can be done in Firefox by changing the useragent to match that of a mobile device (iPod, Android, etc.)
If you plan on using webkit on your site, Firefox is not a great choice as it does not render webkit css styles. An alternative is to use Safari and its development tools (which can be activated in the options menu).
If you need to debug from an actual mobile device, there aren't many options. If you can get Opera mobile onto the device, it comes with a decent debugger called Dragonfly.
The order of your stylin Stylesheets matters for what gets overridden. Make sure your style sheet is before both of the jQuery style sheets.
I want to print my table that contains some css styles too. But whenever I run window.print(), the output appears without any applied css to styling headers and footers.
I've used <link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> in my code. Also I tested it with media="print". But still I have a print preview without any style.
What should I do?
media=print should do.
Make sure you have also checked the "print images and colors" in page setup while seeing the Print Preview.
I have a web application that produce some reports in HTML format. I have different styling options to display these forms. Normally whenever I want to print these pages, I lose all CSS styling features. How can I make a print without any change in appearance?
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./public/css/print.css" type="text/css" media="screen, print" />
As far as I know the print-out should use the same css-styling as the screen unless you specify something else.
Do you specify "media" in the css link?
<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
You could try to either make sure there is no media specified or to set media="screen, print"...
If you use some JavaScript plugin (like: jQuery-Print) you would lose your appearance in the other way if you use CSS correctly it's impossible to have a change in your print usually?!
if your problem don't solve tell me which language do you use for your application?
How can I print a certain block/part of a web page?
Print option to look like Print Screen functionality.
Use css, with the media = print option.
Like:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print" />
The blocks you don't want printed can set display:none.
See http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_print.cfm
You can use javascript's window.print() to print the page. To restrict the printed content to a specific part of the page, you can create a print stylesheet (see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/) that hides all but the desired content.