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Laying out CSS for @media print

Sent by fantasai on 25 March 2008 06:06


Melton Cartes wrote:
> Can someone list some very basic rules for laying out CSS for  
> printing purposes? What are the... top 5 (or 3) things to know about  
> CSS for print vs. for screen?

This article might help:
   http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintStylesheets

Make sure you set your background to white and your main text color
to black.

> I recently created stylesheets for print and found myself floundering  
> with the most basic concept of where the uppermost left-hand corner  
> was on the printed page.... it didn't seem to be the same as the  
> uppermost left-hand corner of the browser window...

Well, printouts have margins. Other than that I don't know what to
say. The top left should be the top left...

~fantasai
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