Has anyone figured out how to print tables in landscape ?
I was trying with CSS but the table is just printed left-to-right but no
landscape :(
-Mike
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Neil Smith wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:44:18 +0000
> From: Neil Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re:Subject: printing (might be OT)
>
> Sure Bobo - you can use Javascript to avoid the need to store your print
> file , together with CSS to format the page as you like.
>
> Javascript : onclick="window.print()"
>
> That will print the window (or offer a print dialog) in IE, NN4, Nav6,
> Moz, Opera etc etc.
>
> For print formatting in CSS look up @media print on www.w3c.org - something
> like this (may not be supported in NN4 btw - though it shouldnt print
> background colors of images if they are on a white background. In fact
> mostof this will be borked on netscape but hey :)
>
> Example :
>
> @media print {
>
> BODY {
> background : white;
> margin: 0.25in;
> size: 210mm 297mm landscape;
>
> /* or portrait */
>
> font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
> font-size: 12pt;
>
> /* prefer to use points for print not pixels cause of resolution
> dependency */
>
> border : 1px solid #000000;
> float: left;
> }
>
> .hidden {
> display : none;
> }
>
> Give your print hidden elements a style of .hidden as specified. There are
> also attributes for page-break-before and page-break-after and so on. Nest
> your other print-only styles inside the @media print{ } making sure that
> you duplicate most of the body styles in some print renderable way (at
> least, specify a font & weight) - the print styles wil be overridden by the
> normal (screen) styles specified in your stylesheet - no need to specify
> @media screen for these. Fool around for a while and you avoid PHP entirely.
>
> Use the force wisely, Luke :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Neil.
>
>
>
> At 16:16 23/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Message-ID: <001601c2c2c0$bba8dab0$9df81e0a@elstudion>
> >From: "Bobo Wieland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm sorry if this is OT but I really need an answer to this question and I
> >can't find it anywhere...
> >
> >I have a link on a page that basicly should work as a print-button. When you
> >click it, it should print some of the information that is currently
> >displayed and ad a header and footer of some sort.
> >
> >The only way i know of doing this is using CSS and showing/hiding layers,
> >but it would be much easier if I could generate a file of some sort that
> >will be sent to the printer...
> >
> >Is there a way to do this sort of thing with php, or could you guys please
> >help pointing me to some information about this...?
> >
> >thanks!
>
>
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