On 5/17/05, Sarah Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a table that is 5 rows by 7 columns. I want a user to be able to
> print it off so it fills up a 8.5x11(horizontal) sheet of paper. how exactly
> do I do this?

table { width: 100% } seems the obvious solution

> do I have the table set in a div and then set the div width
> and height?

No.

> and what would I set it at?

100% is the obvious setting.

> can you use inches

You could - but you don't know what margins the user might have. They
might be using a different sized piece of paper too.

> or would it be in px? 

Difficult to translate to print media.

> and then could you specify the output dpi? 

No, that's handled entirely by the software on the client.

-- 
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk>
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