PRINT STYLES / Media Print CSS

grafishop

2009-11-06 13:02

has anybody experience with altering the media print section as normal CSS (for background images etc.) is not working.....how to work there if css commands are ignored?

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beholder

2009-11-08 18:24

I solved it with this guy via email, the problem boils down to the fact, that you just can't print background pictures in the QC header - no browser supports the feature of printing bg pics.

Print styles are about reading the content, not attempting to reproduce a screen-based medium in a print medium. If the images are content, then they SHOULD NOT be inserted via css, they should be images embedded via IMAGE TAGS in the html of the page (since the goal is separation of presentation and content, not text and non-text).
The solution is therefore to put the picture into a div in container.tpl and set the div's screen display to none and print display to auto.