Formatting Printed Web Pages With CSS
Monday, September 15th, 2008There are times when you want the printed output from a web page to look different that the way the page is displayed on a computer screen. This is particularly useful with blogs and web sites that provide information that users may want to print and file away for later use or for late night reading. I am amazed at the number of major web sites whose pages cannot be printed properly because the content either doesn’t fit on the page, or is cluttered with ads and menus that have no useful purpose on a printed page. CSS can come to the rescue with an external style sheet designed to format printed output.
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