suppress header and footer on print()

Hi,

I would like to allow users to print a page, but I want to suppress the
header and footer that appear by default.

I gather its done with a style sheet.

Please advise.

Many Thanks,

NEIL

Neil Jarman wrote:

I would like to allow users to print a page, but I want to suppress the
header and footer that appear by default.

I gather its done with a style sheet.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/s...tml#adef-media
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html

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"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Neil Jarman wrote:

I would like to allow users to print a page, but I want to suppress the
header and footer that appear by default.

I gather its done with a style sheet.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/s...tml#adef-media
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html

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Hi David,

Thanks for these - very inforative, but I don't see the answer to my problem
yet ...

Neil

Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:20:50 -0000 from Neil Jarman
<neil (AT) tNOiSPAMvPLEASEy (DOT) co.uk>:

I would like to allow users to print a page,

Congratulations! Mission accomplished! Every browser can already do
this., if it's on a device where a printer can be attached.

but I want to suppress the
header and footer that appear by default.

Sorry, you can't. Those are supplied by the browser, though usually
the user can alter them in preferences.

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Neil Jarman wrote:

Hi,

I would like to allow users to print a page, but I want to suppress the
header and footer that appear by default.

I gather its done with a style sheet.

Please advise.

Many Thanks,

NEIL

Neil,

I think the other responders may have misinterpreted your question, so
I'll give it a shot...

I'll speculate that you are using Windows and IE. When a page is
printed from IE, IE automatically adds a one-line header and footer to
the page. This has nothing to do with the web page itself (HTML and
CSS) but is provided, free, by the browser. Netscape Navigator has a
similar facility. Typically, the information in the header/footer
includes the URL, date, page x of y, or similar information.

For IE:
File
Page Setup...
Blank out everything in the Header and Footer fields
OK

(When you decide you want a Header or Footer again, click on the "?" in
the upper right corner of the same popup window, then click on the
Header or Footer field to see a list of the variables that you can use.)

For Netscape (Firefox is probably similar, but I didn't check):
File
Page Setup...
Margins & Header/Footer (tab)
At the bottom of the page, set each of the six entries to
'--blank--' by selecting that value from the pulldown list.

That's how to do it yourself, on your system. Since this has nothing to
do with the actual content of the web page, what happens on another
user's system will be entirely up to that user. Net: You don't have to
do anything to your web page at all, nor can you.

Chris Beall

All:

Thanks for your various inputs.

The point is that I want a user t get a nice clean pricelist, not one with
the address at the bottom.

see www.colour-craft.net/pPricelist.asp?ID=1

Ultimately, the user could type this in and they will just get a new
pricelist, but sadly my client is rather difficult so I didn't want the
surplus address printed.

I can see from the w3 documents that this appears to be unobtainable, so
here I'll leave it!!

regards,

NEIL

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:57:52 +0100, Neil Jarman
<neil (AT) tNOiSPAMvPLEASEy (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

The point is that I want a user t get a nice clean pricelist, not one
with
the address at the bottom.

I can see from the w3 documents that this appears to be unobtainable, so
here I'll leave it!!

You could always offer your visitors the pricelist in a PDF-file _next_ to
the html one. You have to ask yourself though what the real advantage of
that will be from the visitors point of view.

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Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:57:52 -0000 from Neil Jarman
<neil (AT) tNOiSPAMvPLEASEy (DOT) co.uk>:

The point is that I want a user t get a nice clean pricelist, not one with
the address at the bottom.

Then create it as a PDF file, and hope the user is willing to wait
for the download.

As for wanting to do it in the browser -- stop wanting that.

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