I have a set of pages with a special stylesheet used to override some
styles for printing. One of the things I've tried to do is reverse
the colors of my navigation. On the screen, I have a black background
and the navigation is red on yellow. For print, I (obviously) have a
white background and wanted the navigation to be reversed (yellow on
red) for better clarity.

I've done print preview in IE 6, Opera 7.5, and Netscape 7.1 (all
Windows) and see the text is yellow and the background is completely
absent. Does the "print" media not recognize background colors?

You can find a page here:

http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/pmf2/index.shtml

and the stylesheets here:

http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/pmf2/pmf.css (media="all")
http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/pmf2/print.css (media="print")

I'm aware the HTML doesn't quite validate, but the problems are from
the Nedstat code at the bottom of the page that I can't modify too
much if I want it to work. It should have no bearing on the
navigation areas.

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Lee K. Seitz wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a set of pages with a special stylesheet used to override some
> styles for printing. One of the things I've tried to do is reverse
> the colors of my navigation. On the screen, I have a black background
> and the navigation is red on yellow. For print, I (obviously) have a
> white background and wanted the navigation to be reversed (yellow on
> red) for better clarity.
>
> I've done print preview in IE 6, Opera 7.5, and Netscape 7.1 (all
> Windows) and see the text is yellow and the background is completely
> absent. Does the "print" media not recognize background colors?[/color]

Yes it does. But perhaps you set your browser not to print backgrounds
colors.


Matthias

lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net wrote:
[color=blue]
>I have a set of pages with a special stylesheet used to override some
>styles for printing. One of the things I've tried to do is reverse
>the colors of my navigation. On the screen, I have a black background
>and the navigation is red on yellow. For print, I (obviously) have a
>white background and wanted the navigation to be reversed (yellow on
>red) for better clarity.[/color]

Why do you want your navigation to print at all? I've never been able
to click on a link on a print out and have anything happen. :-(
[color=blue]
>I've done print preview in IE 6, Opera 7.5, and Netscape 7.1 (all
>Windows) and see the text is yellow and the background is completely
>absent. Does the "print" media not recognize background colors?[/color]

Most browsers have an option to "print background colours", and most
browsers have this option set to off by default.

Steve

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In article <2hjqh4Fdv101U1@uni-berlin.de>,
Matthias Gutfeldt <say-no-to-spam@gmx.net> wrote:[color=blue]
>Lee K. Seitz wrote:[color=green]
>> I've done print preview in IE 6, Opera 7.5, and Netscape 7.1 (all
>> Windows) and see the text is yellow and the background is completely
>> absent. Does the "print" media not recognize background colors?[/color]
>
>Yes it does. But perhaps you set your browser not to print backgrounds
>colors.[/color]

Bingo! Additional reading revealed this. Apparently I'd configured
it to do so at home and forgotten about it. The browsers above are
just recently installed on a new computer and have not had most of the
preferences set yet. Thanks.

I may just do away with the navigation on the printed version
entirely. I guess there's no logical reason to leave it there.

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Lee K. Seitz wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I may just do away with the navigation on the printed version
> entirely. I guess there's no logical reason to leave it there.[/color]

Generally yes, there's no point to it. But there might be situations
where it's useful to have a "TOC" on the paper printout, as a reminder
to the reader that there's additional information available (OK, so the
smart reader will remember that, but hey, I'm not smart...).


Matthias

Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a set of pages with a special stylesheet used to override some
> styles for printing. One of the things I've tried to do is reverse
> the colors of my navigation. On the screen, I have a black background
> and the navigation is red on yellow. For print, I (obviously) have a
> white background and wanted the navigation to be reversed (yellow on
> red) for better clarity.
>
> I've done print preview in IE 6, Opera 7.5, and Netscape 7.1 (all
> Windows) and see the text is yellow and the background is completely
> absent. Does the "print" media not recognize background colors?
>[/color]

E.g. IExplorer may ignore your background set in the print CSS. That's
a default setting to save ink I guess...

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