Accessibility
Stephanie Sullivan

Stephanie Sullivan

W3Conversions

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Specifying media type attributes: screen, print, and all
  3. Creating a print media style sheet
  4. Ordering style sheets
  5. Setting up the page for print
Created:
12 January 2009
User Level:
All
Products:
Dreamweaver

From screen to print: Creating a print CSS in Dreamweaver

Questions often arise about how to print web pages. Should you create a separate, simple page for printing? Should you just leave users to their own devices knowing they control whether backgrounds or images print anyway? Cascading style sheets (CSS) make it simple to maintain a single page while presenting the content in two different manners using media types.

In this article, you'll learn about media types and how to take advantage of them to create compact pages for print. At the end of the fixed width chapter of the book Greg Rewis and I wrote called, Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4 (there's also a Dreamweaver CS3 version of the book if you have not yet upgraded), we discuss the rules of creating a print style sheet. In this article, you will see those principles in action as you build an example CSS page. Let's get started!

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Dreamweaver CS4

Sample files:

Prerequisite knowledge

Some familiarity with CSS concepts is required.

Page 1 of 5
Next Page

About the author

In demand by top U.S. firms, Stephanie Sullivan is a world-class web standards, Dreamweaver, and accessibility expert whose razor-sharp CSS and (X)HTML skills make her company, W3Conversions, a peerless authority for training corporate web teams and transforming in-house designs into efficient, standards-based websites. Sullivan created the CSS layouts for Dreamweaver CS3 and is coauthor of the respected project-based book Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 and Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4. She's co-leader of the influential Web Standards Project Adobe Task Force, a partner at Community MX, and a speaker who engages audiences around the world with her dynamic presentations. When she's not coding or talking to the little people inside her computer, she escapes to play squash or beach volleyball. Yes, she loves 80s Wave music.