RE: Designing a web page so that it prints nicely

["Char James-Tanny" <CharJT -at- helpstuff -dot- com>]

Hi, Emily :-) 

> Subject: Designing a web page so that it prints nicely
> 
> Can anyone point me to a resource that explains how to do this?
>
> What I want is for, when someone sees my webpage, and clicks 
> File-Print, that what spews out on paper is readable.

Look for information on a print stylesheet (print.css). A List Apart has a
nice article about it by Eric Meyer at
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/. (Note: Print stylesheets
work best when the Web page has been designed with CSS, and when it doesn't
use layout tables.)

Char



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