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

Wed Feb 18 16:11:29 MST 2009

I may have solved it - some more testing will tell for sure.

Looks like it was the 'title=' tag - I removed that from both style sheet
links and it seems to be working correctly. Not sure why that would make
such a difference, but it seems to.

Thanks for all the help!

--Karstyn

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Karstyn McCoy <kmccoy at supportgroup.com>wrote:

> 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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