RE: Designing a web page so that it prints nicely

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

> Was anybody else a tad bit startled by doing a print preview 
> of that page (I used Firefox) and finding that it does not "eat its own
dogfood"?
> 
> Printing it on my system would produce a page with only the big, yellow
title, 
> then 3 pages with all the left and right columns as well as the middle
one, then 
> a blank 5th page.

On Firefox, I got page 1 (title only), page 2 (three columns), and pages 3
and 4 (middle column only). On IE, I got page 1 (title and three columns),
and pages 2, 3, and 4 (middle column only).

They didn't assign a print CSS to the page ;-) Then again, they used tables
for layout, so even with a print CSS, the three columns would still be
displayed.

That's really quite funny...so much for a good example!

Char



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