[FX.php List] [off] CSS Print View

Karstyn McCoy kmccoy at supportgroup.com
Wed Feb 18 16:02:11 MST 2009


Hey Joel,

--- can you load the print.css file directly in the browser? <
xxxx.triple8.net/css/styles_print.css>
Yes

--- could you be testing on a development server that does *not* have the
correct print.css file (i.e. in which your base_url is different than
xxx.triple8.net)?
No - only one server involved

--- is base_url a function you've written?  Why are there parens after it:
base_url() ?
I did not write it, I'm tweaking a site written by others using the
Codeigniter framework. The function is working in a lot of places, including
this page.

and now
--- if you switch "screen" and "print" in your two stylesheet links do you
see the *print* css on-screen?
NO!! the page looks unstyled - not sure why that would be, but definitely
points to a problem somewhere

--Karstyn

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Joel Shapiro <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi Karstyn
>
> Few things to check:
>
> - can you load the print.css file directly in the browser? <
> xxxx.triple8.net/css/styles_print.css>
> - if you switch "screen" and "print" in your two stylesheet links do you
> see the *print* css on-screen?
> - could you be testing on a development server that does *not* have the
> correct print.css file (i.e. in which your base_url is different than
> xxx.triple8.net)?
>
> Also, is base_url a function you've written?  Why are there parens after
> it: base_url() ?
>
>
> -Joel
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>
>  I'd don't have a problem verifying what should be obvious!
>>
>> Yes, styles_print.css is in the correct folder.
>> No stray characters that I can find.
>> I have to assume permissions are correct - I have to upload to an FTP site
>> and other pages uploaded have worked correctly.
>>
>> --Karstyn
>>
>> 2009/2/18 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>
>> I know this is stating the obvious, but the styles_print.css file is
>> located in the right place? Does it have any stray characters or mal-formed
>> style references that might cause it to fail on load? Are the permissions
>> set properly on the file?
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>>
>>  code does seem to be rendering fine:
>>> http://pastebin.com/d5d959beb
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <
>>> ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What does your rendered output look like?
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/m161a30ac
>>>
>>> ggt
>>>
>>> 2009/2/18, Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>:
>>> > Hmmm, I am going to go for short tags as the problem. What happens if
>>> you
>>> > change <? to <?php in your embedded php code? What does this look like
>>> when
>>> > you view source in the page after it's drawn?
>>> >
>>> > Dale
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>>> > Hi Dale -
>>> >
>>> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
>>> > href="<?=base_url()?>css/styles_large.css" media="screen"
>>> > title="screen" charset="utf-8">
>>> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
>>> > href="<?=base_url()?>css/styles_print.css" media="print"
>>> > title="print" charset="utf-8">
>>> >
>>> > --Karstyn
>>> >
>>> > 2009/2/18 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>
>>> > > Hi Karstyn,
>>> > >
>>> > > Can you post your html code for the style sheet references?
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > Dale
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Please let me know if this is toooo far off topic for this list
>>> (and if
>>> > so, where would be a better place).
>>> > > > Just looks like there are a lot of list members with good broad
>>> > knowledge.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I've added a Print style sheet to a web page so it dynamically
>>> prints in
>>> > a more printer friendly fashion. I have made sure that each has the
>>> correct
>>> > media type specified, 'print' for my new style sheet and 'screen' for
>>> the
>>> > original.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > The problem comes in when trying to print, the print style sheet is
>>> not
>>> > getting used.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Testing with Firefox 3 on Win - any one know of Firefox having
>>> problems
>>> > with the 'media' tag? If I load the print style sheet manually it looks
>>> > great.
>>> > > > IE does pull the print style sheet, but mangles it a bit - no
>>> surprise
>>> > there.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > > > --Karstyn
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