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CSS: Print Style Sheets

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Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to CSS print style sheets
1. Mechanics of Print-Based CSS
  • Print style sheets and media queries
  • Creating a print style sheet and linking it to your document
  • Creating a print media query
  • Previewing print style sheets without printing
  • The pitfalls of using dev tools for previewing printing
  • Understanding screen, print, aural, and the cascade
2. Best Practices for Print-Based Styling
  • Best practices for styling for print
  • Touring your example page
  • Hiding irrelevant information for print
  • Changing webpage layouts for print
  • Overriding styles intended for screen display
  • Adding print-only information that is hidden from screens
  • Writing URLs after links and social media icons
  • Complex media queries for print and page orientation
  • Challenge
  • Solution
3. Beautiful Formatting for Print
  • Understanding paged media and CSS fragmentation properties
  • Setting printing page breaks
  • Creating columns within longer documents
  • Adding hyphenation
  • Controlling widows and orphans
  • Using @page to create page margins
  • Coming soon: Additional @page properties
  • Challenge
  • Solution
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jen Kramer

Reviews

4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 40 ratings

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