@page not working but @media ok

#1 July 20th, 2005, 09:27 PM

Hi all,

I'm trying to use this :

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
@page { margin:10cm }
</style>
</head>

<body>
Hello
</body>
</html>

but it has no effect in the print preview for IE 5.5, 6 an NS7 !
However, something like :
@media print { BODY {font-size: 25pt} }
works fine.

Could anyone tell me what's wrong ? Thanks !!

#2 July 20th, 2005, 09:28 PM

In article <3f389a5.0310020716.3e2fd42@posting.google.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Buzzy
<buzzy_buz@hotmail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>but it has no effect in the print preview for IE 5.5, 6 an NS7 !
>However, something like :
> @media print { BODY {font-size: 25pt} }
>works fine.
>
>Could anyone tell me what's wrong ? Thanks !![/color]

I thought the explanation was "old browsers", but maybe not.

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/cs...key/syntax.htm
indicates that MSIE 5.5 and up and NN 4.0 and up support @page.
Or maybe not: there are color codes there with no indication what
they mean.

Then I looked again at your @page:[color=blue]
> @page { margin:10cm }[/color]
Try as I might, I don't see a selector there. _What_ is supposed to
have margins of 10cm all around?

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#3 July 20th, 2005, 09:28 PM

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
[color=blue]
>In article <3f389a5.0310020716.3e2fd42@posting.google.com> in
>comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Buzzy
><buzzy_buz@hotmail.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>but it has no effect in the print preview for IE 5.5, 6 an NS7 !
>>However, something like :
>> @media print { BODY {font-size: 25pt} }
>>works fine.
>>
>>Could anyone tell me what's wrong ? Thanks !![/color]
>
>I thought the explanation was "old browsers", but maybe not.
>
>http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/cs...key/syntax.htm
>indicates that MSIE 5.5 and up and NN 4.0 and up support @page.[/color]

IE5.5. and Opera 4 and up. No support is indicated for NN.
[color=blue]
>Then I looked again at your @page:[color=green]
>> @page { margin:10cm }[/color]
>Try as I might, I don't see a selector there. _What_ is supposed to
>have margins of 10cm all around?[/color]

The page. @page rules don't need any other selectors, without any they
apply to all the printed pages.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

#4 July 20th, 2005, 09:28 PM

Thanks guys, but, though it seems supported by MSIE 5.5+, @page is not
working for me in MSIE 6 ! And I need it ...
Does anyone can copy/paste the piece of HTML code and see if it has
any effect in the print preview w/ MSIE 6?
Thanks !!!
(10 cm is just for testing purpose).

Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> wrote in message news:<gvionvc487acvb6bfd6ku1l3p67bc31v9u@4ax.com>. ..[color=blue]
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>[color=green]
> >In article <3f389a5.0310020716.3e2fd42@posting.google.com> in
> >comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Buzzy
> ><buzzy_buz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >>but it has no effect in the print preview for IE 5.5, 6 an NS7 !
> >>However, something like :
> >> @media print { BODY {font-size: 25pt} }
> >>works fine.
> >>
> >>Could anyone tell me what's wrong ? Thanks !![/color]
> >
> >I thought the explanation was "old browsers", but maybe not.
> >
> >http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/cs...key/syntax.htm
> >indicates that MSIE 5.5 and up and NN 4.0 and up support @page.[/color]
>
> IE5.5. and Opera 4 and up. No support is indicated for NN.
>[color=green]
> >Then I looked again at your @page:[color=darkred]
> >> @page { margin:10cm }[/color]
> >Try as I might, I don't see a selector there. _What_ is supposed to
> >have margins of 10cm all around?[/color]
>
> The page. @page rules don't need any other selectors, without any they
> apply to all the printed pages.
>
> Steve[/color]

#5 July 20th, 2005, 09:28 PM

"Buzzy" <buzzy_buz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3f389a5.0310030059.6c14dd1c@posting.google.co m...[color=blue]
> Thanks guys, but, though it seems supported by MSIE 5.5+, @page is not
> working for me in MSIE 6 ! And I need it ...
> Does anyone can copy/paste the piece of HTML code and see if it has
> any effect in the print preview w/ MSIE 6?
> Thanks !!!
> (10 cm is just for testing purpose).
>[/color]
I can't get @page to work in IE6 Win 98 either. I don't know if IE5.5 does
(the chart says it does
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/cs...key/syntax.htm ) but it
certainly fails to work in IE6. The only browser that it does anything in
for me is Opera 7.1. Mozilla 1.4 fails to do anything.
Anyone out there got the definitive answer to this?
thanks
David

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