Print CSS

T

Tom

I assume that If i set up a print css file then I can just set those
elements to display none, that I don't want to print and all the rest is
printed. Yet I get a blank screen for the print preview any suggestion would
be appreciated.

www.poetrymadman.com
 
K

Karl Core

Tom said:
I assume that If i set up a print css file then I can just set those
elements to display none, that I don't want to print and all the rest is
printed. Yet I get a blank screen for the print preview any suggestion
would be appreciated.

Chances are, you've chosen to 'display: none' on the parent element of
something you wanted to print.
 
R

rf

Tom said:
I assume that If i set up a print css file then I can just set those
elements to display none, that I don't want to print and all the rest is
printed. Yet I get a blank screen for the print preview any suggestion would
be appreciated.

www.poetrymadman.com

Hmmm. Tables within tables.

The one you want to print is nested. The one you hide is the outermost one.
Of course you are going to get a blank page :)
 
B

Barbara de Zoete

Hmmm. Tables within tables.

The one you want to print is nested. The one you hide is the outermost
one.
Of course you are going to get a blank page :)

lol


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T

Tom

Barbara de Zoete said:

Is this alt.html.sarcasm

I thought the idea was to help not mock. We are not all experts.

I do hope that none of the sarcastic posters here, teach for a living.
 
B

Barbara de Zoete

Is this alt.html.sarcasm

I thought the idea was to help not mock. We are not all experts.

I do hope that none of the sarcastic posters here, teach for a living.

Now this is where your thinking needs a rivision. None of us are here to
teach. Neither is this a helpdesk.

While 'mocking', you were given a valuable tip by <rf> Richard. You cannot
hide a table and then expect a part of that table to be printed. That is a
pretty streight forward hint. What is it you do not understand?


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R

rf

Tom said:
Is this alt.html.sarcasm

No, this is alt.html where you either get your question answered
(serendipitously) or you dont.

If you do then think yourself lucky. If you don't then bad luck.
I thought the idea was to help not mock. We are not all experts.

The 24x7 help desk is over there -->. Get your credit card out.
I do hope that none of the sarcastic posters here, teach for a living.

So do I. Those who can do. Those who cannot teach.

What is your bloody problem. You have your answer. You hid a table and then
expected something within that table to be visible. Your markup is wrong.
Accept the answer and move on.
 
T

Tom

Civility costs nothing that is all I'm saying.

I was only looking for help and if I can help someone in return I would do
it.

I have read a lot of postings on this newsgroup and it does seem that
whenever someone asks a genuine question that is perceived by experts as
worth some ridicule, the poor poster gets unhelpful comments and mocked.
If you can't be positive then don't reply to someone's post.

My point about teaching was borne from annoyance that I got the reponses I
got where sarcastic and condascending. It was making more a comment on
peoples atittude that it was on teaching

I take on board the comments and will look at removing the tables and using
CSS.

I hope you all have a lovely day
 
A

Andy Dingley

Is this alt.html.sarcasm

No, that's c.i.w.ah. If you think this was sarcastic, try posting
anything over there


It annoys me too - it's not as if we're short of _real_ idiots to vent
our frustrations on.
 
M

Matt Clara

rf said:
No, this is alt.html where you either get your question answered
(serendipitously) or you dont.

If you do then think yourself lucky. If you don't then bad luck.


The 24x7 help desk is over there -->. Get your credit card out.


So do I. Those who can do. Those who cannot teach.

Spoken like an ignorant jackass.
What is your bloody problem. You have your answer. You hid a table and
then
expected something within that table to be visible. Your markup is wrong.
Accept the answer and move on.

Yeah, but you don't have to condescend while doing it. Pretty cheap high
your trying to give yourself, don't you think?

Cheers
Matt
 
R

rf

Yeah, but you don't have to condescend while doing it. Pretty cheap high
your trying to give yourself, don't you think?

And just where is the condescending bit in my original reply? In fact it
was Tom who started in with a swipe against me and all the others here. Not
a good way to get answers to questions round here!

I gave what I thought to be a somewhat humorous reply (which is why I
included the emoticon, to make it obviously amusing) to something that
should have been bloody obvious (although I did no say that at the time).
What is more obvious now IMHO is that Tom did not like being called out on
such a trivial mistake and totally missed the tone of my post. At least
Barbara thought it funny and she is, well, Barbara.

As to humour, are you and Tom's of a different brand to mine (possible as I
am Australian)? If so then I simply do not give a damn.

And where is *your* solution to the problem, Matt?

Oh, BTW welcome to usenet. Please return here when you have something
constuctive to contribute. Meanwhile get a life.
 
S

Sid Ismail

: Oh, BTW welcome to usenet. Please return here when you have something
: constuctive to contribute. Meanwhile get a life.


LOL

Sid
 
R

rf

Sid Ismail said:
: Oh, BTW welcome to usenet. Please return here when you have something
: constuctive to contribute. Meanwhile get a life.

Yo Sid. A long time since we have conversed.

I was trying to be cranky. Did I say something funny?
 
M

Matt Clara

rf said:
And just where is the condescending bit in my original reply? In fact it
was Tom who started in with a swipe against me and all the others here.
Not
a good way to get answers to questions round here!

I gave what I thought to be a somewhat humorous reply (which is why I
included the emoticon, to make it obviously amusing) to something that
should have been bloody obvious (although I did no say that at the time).
What is more obvious now IMHO is that Tom did not like being called out on
such a trivial mistake and totally missed the tone of my post. At least
Barbara thought it funny and she is, well, Barbara.

As to humour, are you and Tom's of a different brand to mine (possible as
I
am Australian)? If so then I simply do not give a damn.

And where is *your* solution to the problem, Matt?

Oh, BTW welcome to usenet. Please return here when you have something
constuctive to contribute. Meanwhile get a life.

Well, you're right, I shouldn't have railed against you as I did. However,
there is a clear problem with condescending attitudes on this group, and I'd
spent the last hour wading through them when I posted my comments. When Tom
(who probably also had been wading through them for some time) spoke up
against it, I simply had to agree.

What are these condescending people doing here if not trying to help people
by filling in info they don't have? Are they just here for info themselves?
Barbara de Zoete in particular goes out of her way to rip newbies new
assholes on a daily basis. And I don't buy into that whole "This isn't the
help desk" crap. Usenet is specifically for this purpose, the sharing of
information. If they're opposed to newbie questions, why not start a group
called alt.html.advanced, and then go there? They can congratulate each
other on their ivory tower and never have to answer any questions again,
unless it be on some exoteric topics that only about 1% or less of the
people in the whole world could possibly have an answer to. Doesn't that
sound like fun...

ps. I've been coming to usenet for 6 years now, thanks. this group really
does have a problem with its superior attitudes, whether you think it does
or not. I also run the Michigan Department of Agriculture's website for a
living, so I have plenty to contribute, the first thing being pointing out
that this group sucks on attitude.
 
L

Lauri Raittila

in alt.html, Matt Clara wrote:

Where is *your* answer to question
What are these condescending people doing here if not trying to help people
by filling in info they don't have? Are they just here for info themselves?
Barbara de Zoete in particular goes out of her way to rip newbies new
assholes on a daily basis. And I don't buy into that whole "This isn't the
help desk" crap. Usenet is specifically for this purpose, the sharing of
information.

Well, you don't seem to be sharing it. How many questions you have
answered? I bet is ten times less than Barbara. So untill you know
everything and answer to all dump questions *correctly*, don't say this
is help desk. This is discussion group.
If they're opposed to newbie questions, why not start a group
called alt.html.advanced, and then go there?

We have nothing against newbies for HTML. We have something against
newbies for usenet/this newsgroup that don't know what it is, and get
angry when someone does not answer his/her question the way he would
like.
They can congratulate each
other on their ivory tower and never have to answer any questions again,
unless it be on some exoteric topics that only about 1% or less of the
people in the whole world could possibly have an answer to. Doesn't that
sound like fun...

It is not good idea to give spoonfed answers, if you don't want people to
ask that kind of questions.
ps. I've been coming to usenet for 6 years now, thanks. this group really
does have a problem with its superior attitudes, whether you think it does
or not. I also run the Michigan Department of Agriculture's website for a
living, so I have plenty to contribute, the first thing being pointing out
that this group sucks on attitude.

The thing is, you don't contribute much. That you could potentually
contribute is not really much help. If you feel that newbies should be
spoonfed, then do it. If you don't feel like it either, don't write
bullshit about attitudes.
 
B

Barbara de Zoete

Usenet is specifically for this purpose, the sharing of
information.

Sharing information is a possible use of usenet newsgroups. Discussion and
debate is another. Anouncements a next. Asking questions and answering them yet
another. And more probably.

The archieves of this group and other web authoring groups are vast and filled
with very valuable information. You say you waded through the post to a while
back. You must have noticed how many questions get repeated over and over again

Of the top of my head:
'good book'
'center a div'
'table vs. css' aka layers (yak)
'open a new window'
'print css'
'mp3' or other objects
'table cell dimensions'
'&amp;' or &lt; et cetera
'Why doesn't this validate?'
'urgent question from a noob' and all variations on that theme
'Why doesn't FF display proparly? IE does !!!'

All questions to which a good answer is available from these groups if only the
one looking for the answer would at least give it one try at Google.groups
archive. All those answers, acumulated over years and years of valuable
discussion, available to all, and you think this group doesn't share knowlegde?

But no, many come in for a hit-and-run, a
quick-and-I-don't-give-a-damn-if-it's-dirty-if-only-it-works-in-IE6-because-99%-of-my-visitors-use-IE6
question&solution routine with a and-I-want-it-now!! attitude. How does this
contribute to the grand goal of sharing knowlegde? Hmmm?

Mind you: Many but _not all_. There are those that have a problem, have studied
some on a possible solution, but just got stuck somehow. They lurked here for a
bit probably, learned a lot already by doing so, about techniques and group
communication both.
Just don't get the full concept for what they try with their pages yet. Doesn't
matter, takes time, years possibly, to really master the lot (and then find out
all has changed). Those start _participating_. Participation is a key word here.
Nobody minds someone not knowing something.

I'm all for sharing knowledge. Where's your contribution, so highly valued by
yourself?

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S

Sid Ismail

: >
: > : Oh, BTW welcome to usenet. Please return here when you have something
: > : constuctive to contribute. Meanwhile get a life.
:
: > LOL
:
: Yo Sid. A long time since we have conversed.
:
: I was trying to be cranky. Did I say something funny?


Yo!

'tis not often you get _that_ cranky. But I do understand how one
feels when someone takes a swipe at another just to get on the LOL
list, without contributing anything constructive. Your reaction was
apt, of course, but a trifle amusing nevertheless. :))

Keep up the good work here in alt.html.

Sid
 
S

Sid Ismail

: What are these condescending people doing here if not trying to help people
: by filling in info they don't have? Are they just here for info themselves?
: Barbara de Zoete in particular goes out of her way to rip newbies new
: assholes on a daily basis.


Barbara's posts were all very constructive, and when she ripped
newbies (as you put it) it's because they didn't read the question
or/and post properly. Barbara's posts are very helpful _if_ you
decide to read them a trifle slower trying to understand them.

'Tis the next best thing to a 24x7 helpdesk. :)

Sid
 
B

Barbara de Zoete

Barbara's posts were all very constructive, and when she ripped
newbies (as you put it) it's because they didn't read the question
or/and post properly. Barbara's posts are very helpful _if_ you
decide to read them a trifle slower trying to understand them.

Spots a learning opportunity:
'.. _if_ you decide to read them a trifle slower trying to understand them.'

Do you care to clarify please? The 'read them a trifle slower' bit? Why read
slower?


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T

Tom

If I am coming to the wrong place to learn, read, ask discuss etc,. html
then can someone supply a link to a good resource. In particular somwhere I
can discuss html with other like minded people to learn more about it.

I am not looking for an html class, book or static website, but somewhere I
can ask and get feedback and hopefully share knowledge, tips, good practice
etc,.

Also can I have the url for the guidelines for using this newsgroup.

Please only genuine responses please.

I would also like to know how to search the archive.

and for the record I am not here just to get a free help desk. I share what
I learn with others like myself who are working on various sites, all non
profit. Our aim is to develop our skills. If I want sarcasm then I've got
my 8 year old.
 

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