So, I'm taking a web design class for the first time and my professor told us to use a specific print stylesheet for our website. I want it to hide the header and navigation bar specifically (footer, headings, etc too), but I cannot seem to get it right. The navigation bar is the 'cssmenu' in the code below by the way, not , which is throwing me off. This site is for educational purposes (i.e. copyright free use), so please do not criticize how I set up the code because I'm new to this. Please help if you can.
My site is: http://tiger.towson.edu/~kmoore25/Proj_3/Welcome.html
Anyways, it's not working and it worked for another site I did. By not working, I mean the elements that I am trying to hide are still visible when trying to print. This is the template that I was told to use:
/* Remove unwanted elements */
#header, #nav, .noprint
{
display: none;
}
/* Ensure the content spans the full width */
#container, #container2, #content
{
width: 100%; margin: 0; float: none;
}
/* Change text color to black (useful for light text on a dark background) */
.lighttext
{
color: #000
}
/* Improve color contrast of links */
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #781351
}
This is how I tweaked it:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
font-family: Georgia, serif;
background: none;
color: black;
}
#page {
width: 100%;
margin: 0; padding: 0;
background: none;
}
#header, .cssmenu, #footer, .noprint {
display: none;
}
.entry a:after {
content: " [" attr(href) "] ";
}
#printed-article {
border: 1px solid #666;
padding: 10px;
}
h1
{
color: #000
}
h2
{
color: #000
}
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #781351
}
Keep in mind that I'm new to website. Lastly, this is the html for one of the pages on my site so you can see how it doesn't work. I removed the paragraphs and stuff to condense the code so that you can better understand it because I doubt that's the problem:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>OITNB - Piper Kerman</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="html, responsive, grid, css, web design" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/drop_down.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/component.css" />
<script src="js/modernizr.custom.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/drop_down.js'></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="page">
<header align="center"> <a href="Welcome.html"><img src="images/oitnb.jpg" alt="OITNB" width=""/></a> </header>
<div id='cssmenu'>
<ul>
<li class='has-sub'><a href='#'><span>About the Show</span></a>
<ul>
<li class='active last'><a href='synopsis.html'><span>Synopsis</span></a></li>
<li class='active last'><a href='piper.html'><span>The Real Piper Kerman</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class='has-sub'><a href='#'><span>Seasons</span></a>
<ul>
<li><a href='season_one.html'><span>Season One</span></a></li>
<li class='active last'><a href='season_two.html'><span>Season Two</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class='has-sub'><a href='#'><span>Cast</span></a>
<ul>
<li class='active last'><a href='season_one_cast.html'><span>Season One</span></a></li>
<li class='active last'><a href='season_two_cast.html'><span>Season Two</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class='has-sub'><a href='#'><span>Pics</span></a>
<ul>
<li><a href='posters.html'><span>Posters</span></a></li>
<li><a href='fan_art.html'><span>Fan Art</span></a></li>
<li><a href='thumbnails.html'><span>Thumbnails</span></a></li>
<li><a href='gifs.html'><span>GIFs</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class='active'><a href='contests.html'><span>Contests</span></a> </li>
<li class='active last'><a href='contact.html'><span>Contact</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You need to use a media query to stop the element from showing up when printing. Something along the lines of this should do the trick.
This question should give you more detailed information.