Make Print Useless Using CSS

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January 31st, 2004, 04:34 PM

methodmano

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Make Print Useless Using CSS

I'm trying to prevent users from printing my pages. I'm not looking for something too serious, just enough to deter the average user. Right now I have the following in my css file:

@media print {
BODY {
display:none;
}

This works pretty well and just gives a blank page if someone tries to print. However, this was tested on a mac using IE 5.1 and it didn't work. Is there a way to make this method work across platforms and with different browsers? Thanks in advance.

John

February 1st, 2004, 05:47 AM

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It may be that MAC doesn't understand the @ in the stylesheet parameters. If you use <link> it should work, like so:

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css" title="default" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" title="default" media="print" />

with print containing your line of code:

Code:

BODY {
display:none;
}

with href being the path/filename of your stylesheet. HTH

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