Hi Deven,
On 5/25/15 11:25 AM, Deven Bansod wrote:
Hi, Thanks for the reply.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com mailto:bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Sorry for my delayed response; it's a holiday weekend here and I was away from the internet all day yesterday. On 5/23/15 6:29 AM, Deven Bansod wrote: > Hi, > > RFE #701 proposes that we should replace the 'Print View' and 'Print > View (with Full Texts)' with a 'Print View' Option which should print > out the CSS of the page only (i.e. whatever exactly is currently > displayed on the page itself). > > /I had something in mind about the implementation, but am not able to > figure some details. Any help in this regard would be appreciated. / My first thought when I saw the initial feature request years ago was to make a print view stylesheet (such as [0])that hides the navigation frame, menu bar, etc. At the time, that wasn't a viable option because of the frameset, but with the move to a single page for display it might be possible now. I did not test whether this would actually work for us, but if it does the "Print" button can simply become a javascript function to tell the browser to print rather than opening a whole new plain-formatted page with different rendering. For me, this certainly would be the preferred method if it works.Thanks for the link. I will look into it and explore.
I've done some exploring with the CSS solution, and thought I'd share my thoughts, although they're incomplete at this time.
I had some success so far with making the following changes to CSS (which I would expect to be reflected in a print stylesheet, which should be loaded after the other stylesheets to override any duplicated directives). There are obviously some unwanted elements remaining, but this looks like the beginnings of a decent print view.
Note that for development purposes, I like to leave the "print" stylesheet set for screen display, that way I can view what it will look like without constantly going to the print preview feature of my browser. Once it looks good on my screen, I set the stylesheet to @media print{} and check it in the actual print preview. It's not a sure thing of how it will look when rendered for printing, but helps me get close without wasting a lot of time in the print dialog.
Here are the changes I made so far:
#page_content { position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; float: none; /* float:none is a work around for a Gecko-based bug when printing more than one page; see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104040 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129941 -- this may actually be resolved, finally, but doesn't seem to hurt anything and old habits die hard */ }
pma_navigation { display: hidden; }
floating_menubar { display: hidden; }
pma_console_container { display: hidden;
page_nav_icons { display: hidden; }