Most likely, it looked terrible. You wondered
why all the extraneous garbage in the navigation, sidebar, advertisements, and footer had
to waste half a toner cartridge when all you wanted was the content. When a site is built
using CSS for design, it??™s incredibly easy to hide these elements from printers using a print
style sheet. Typically, the first line of the print CSS file is dedicated to hiding the visual elements
not needed for printing. For instance:
#header img, #leftcol, #rightcol, ul#menu,
#previousstuff, #commentform, #advertisements {
display: none;
}
Deciding what actually stays and what goes may provide some consternation. Seriously
consider what users want when they print a web page. 99 percent of the time, the content
is going to be the focus, so do everything possible to remove the noise of the visual design
and let the body copy hog the page??™s real estate. Figure 11-9 shows the content taking
center stage.
Also consider items that rely on an interactive environment for context and functionality.
The following items are useless in printed format:
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