Printing With CSS

[cyberprince]

I encourntered a recent article in A List Apart and printed it out. Despite the borders on the page...the printed page came out like it had been printed from a print only page.

The sidebar of that article page said that this was possible through CSS. Can anybody explain how this is done?

[Adam P.]

Not sure how it's done, but it is done with CSS. If you take a look at the code of that page, you will see that there are not tables. It is structured with CSS.

[creole]

Read this page on the W3C site. What A List Apart is using is called the @Media rule. It tells the browser to use one set of styles and the printer to use another set:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html

[cyberprince]

thanks creole!