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

Wed Feb 18 17:20:58 MST 2009

If this project is anything to go by, I'd say it's not!

Not sure how that was introduced, but I'm fairly certain it was there before
I started to work on the project, but I think it was blank, i.e target=''
I probably 'helped' by adding values.

--Karstyn

2009/2/18 Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net>

> I don't think title is supported by <link> tags. I could be wrong about
> that....
> Dale
>
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>
> 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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