Confused on how to use @media.

Viken Karaguesian

Hello all,

I'm a little confused on how to implement @media to make some web pages
print better. From what I've been able to read so far, I need to set
the @media rules as the top items in my CSS. So I would write something
like (not sure of the formatting here):

@media print {

body { blah blah blah }; (does a semi-colon go here?)

div.whatever { visibility: hidden }

}

OK, so once I have set different parameters for print in my CSS, how do
I implement that in the HTML document? I've read a lot about how to use
@import in the <head> but I can't find anything (that I can understand)
on how to implement @media in the html document.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Viken K.

Dec 8 '05 #1

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Garmt de Vries

Viken Karaguesian wrote:

Hello all,

I'm a little confused on how to implement @media to make some web pages
print better.

If you wish, you can avoid @media by creating separate stylesheets for
each medium:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet " href="screen.cs s" type="text/css"
media="screen"> </link>
<link rel="stylesheet " href="print.css " type="text/css"
media="print"></link>
</head>

In this case, screen.css and print.css contain your styles for screen
and print, respectively.

Since you'll probably have many rules in common for screen and print, a
better solution is to create one single stylesheet:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet " href="style.css " type="text/css"
media="screen,p rint"></link>
</head>

and style.css could look like this:

---
/* Common rules */
body { font-family: fantasy; }
h1 { border: 1px solid lime; }

@media screen {
/* Rules specifically for screen */
body { color: #faa; background-color: #002; }
a:hover { font-weight: bold; }
}

@media print {
/* Rules specifically for print */
body { color: #000; background-color: #fff; }
div#navigation { display: none; }
}
---

Note the positions of { } and ;

--
Garmt de Vries.

Dec 8 '05 #2

Viken Karaguesian

I see...so if I was to add "media=screen,p rint" in the <head> link, the
browser will automatically know which rules apply to which medium
because of the @media statement in the CSS, right?

Thanks.

Viken K.

Dec 8 '05 #3

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