PRINT of webpage: always wastes p.1 with links etc

Squiz Matrix Support
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Mostly I compose content in raw html, using BBEDit to optimise it to remove formatting.


In 3.4.7 (OK yes I should upgrade :>)



in designs, the parse files seem to be formatted: and so I have two questions please:


  1. Is it OK to optimise the parse files? I want to do that because I hope it will solve this problem:


  2. When someone PRINTS out one of my web pages, the first page they print out is wasted by having all the surrounding design (like lists of navigation links etc from left hand side of our template).



    So I am hoping that optimising the parse file will solve that problem.

    Or is there another solution?



    Thanks
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You can change the parse file if you want, or you could provide a printer friendly design or stylesheet.

3

You'll need a printer friendly style sheet to solve your issue with navigation items appearing in printed documents. You can set one up like this:


[html]<link rel="stylesheet" href="mysource_files/print.css" media="print" />[/html]



Then just target the divs you want to hide by id:



[html]#left-navigation { display: none; }[/html]



I'm not sure what you mean by 'remove formatting', but if you are asking if it is ok to strip whitespace from matrix parse files, it is perfectly ok.