Print page code

[Lars]

I want to make buttons wich prints the page. Is there a WordPress or theme specific code for this?

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[Jason Bobich]

You’d need to get some sort of plugin. I think if you search over in the Plugin repo, you can find a lot of free things you could try.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=print

[karlo]

I have had some success with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print-friendly/ with another theme but in the end I did it myself based on Print code from HTML5Boilerplate https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/css/main.css#L230 And last week i ripped out a similar snippet from I dont know where. Preparation for jumpstart printing. Cant be bothered to test as it is no fun. Like you I will need to make own “template”.

/* =Print media= 
		------------------------------------------------- */
@media print {

	* {
		color: black            !important;
		background: transparent !important;
		text-shadow: none       !important;
		box-shadow: none        !important;
		border: none            !important;
		float: none             !important;
		clear: none             !important;
		}
	html, body, article, header, section, footer, aside, div { width: 100% !important; }
	a, a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active, abbr, acronym {
		text-decoration: none;
		border-bottom: 0 none; }
	h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, li {
		page-break-inside: avoid;
		orphans: 3; widows: 3; }
	h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { page-break-after: avoid; }
	thead   { display: table-header-group; }
	tr, img { page-break-inside: avoid; }
	nav     { display: none; }

}

I dont think Bootstrap has any.

So simply a media query but not CSS3, goes way back http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/06/10/428149.aspx Way better method than external CSS file http://www.phpied.com/5-years-later-print-css-still-sucks/ – but also painful to set up. Takes some time to tear down pages – and test over and over. Print preview is ok but you really need real print to be sure.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by karlo.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by karlo.

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