[Phpmyadmin-devel] Regarding RFE #701

[Deven Bansod]

Hi Isaac,

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:bennetch at 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.
>
>
​Thanks for sharing. This seems like a good strategy. I was indeed wasting
a lot of time
there.



> 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;
> }
>
>
>
​Yes. I had made almost the same changes in the pdf print that I had sent
on the mailing list
in this thread previously except the first one.

Thanks for a great head start. I will also continue to look into it. And
try to
find a simpler way to not include specific elements.

I was thinking of adding a class-related css like

.print_ignore {
     display:none;
}

into the print.css and then adding this class
dynamically to these 'not-to-be-printed' elements (by may be parsing the
HTML and adding class
on pre-decided basis, for ex. we don't need action buttons so add this
class to these <td>)
while printing.

I will post an update when I get to something significant.

​Thanks.​



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-- 
Regards,
Deven Bansod
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