Use percentages instead of fixed widths.

-----Original Message-----
From: brian.lowe@x... [mailto:brian.lowe@x...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:16 AM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] Re: printing from web page


> i have an html site that has a table on every page that
> holds the menu on the left and the data/information on the
> right. i am trying to print the page but the right hand
> side is always missing. i have set the table to 800
> in width but the printer can only print 600 i think.
> i don't want to have to redo the site, can any suggest
> a way around this please

If the display is 800 wide then the printer won't be able to print it on 

8" wide paper.

You're going to have to rework some pages on the site, but it may not be 

as bad as you think.

For each page that you need to be printable, just do another version
that's less than the regular print width, and let the user access it 
from
a "print this page" option. You may be able to simply take off the left
menu (a menu is redundant on a printout anyway) to trim the width down
enough.

Brian
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