When web pages are printed the results are sometimes unsatisfactory. Using CSS, authors can often improve this significantly though browser support for some print rules is still somewhat limited.
Although web pages are most commonly viewed on screen site visitors sometimes wish to print them to hard copy. This is particularly so with pages carrying information about an order or order confirmation, though it could occur for almost any page.
One approach is to offer a special 'printer friendly' version of a page. This is accessed via a link on the page and can be formatted to produce a good printed result. One penalty is that two versions of a page must be maintained with concomitant risk that the content of the two may differ; another is that the visitor may miss the link and use the normal method of printing so the effort is wasted.
Fortunately CSS styles provide an alternative approach. A special printer style sheet can be developed; all pages on a site can be linked to it and no special editing of individual pages is required. A page may then be printed using menu instructions such as File > Print in a browser.
Those unfamiliar with CSS should return to Section 4 of the User Guide and learn how to use Styles in KompoZer before proceeding further.
A7.1.2 Printer style sheets
Printer stylesheets can be either internal or external (linked) sheets. What is needed is some means of identifying such sheets with the purpose for which they are intended. This is done using one of two methods.
For complete style sheets specify the 'media' attribute for the link or style element.
For individual style rules or groups of rules use the @media rule.
A7.1.2.1 Style sheets – media="print"
The normal form of a link to an external style sheet, in the header of a file, is .
The normal form for the opening tag for an internal style sheet is
