local style sheet override for printing web page?

Subject: local style sheet override for printing web page?
From: guy <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:32:15 -0700


When I find a web page I'd like to print out for offline perusal (often in places where it is less than convenient to take along a laptop), I find that the typical three-column layout of pages styled by CSS leads to paper-wasting printouts. Take, for example,

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/09/SemanticMarkup

That has a lovely layout, but would take 6 pages to print, because of the arrangement that limits long-flow content to the middle 3/5 of the page. IF the CSS let the main text flow wider after the left and right insets, that would not be TOO bad.

But isn't there a way (preferably in Mozilla) for the local browser to specify a CSS for print media that overrides the CSS specified by the author?

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