T-bird Leader jazzdman@gmail.com radioed the tower On 9/20/2006 3:13 PM:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to learn CSS in the hopes of solving a problem I'm
> having with FireFox. I've created a simple web app with an HTML table
> that is populated with values from a database. The web app is written
> in PHP. The HTML that works in other browsers ( IE and Netscape) is
> written without CSS and without any specification of table cell width.
> With these other two browsers, what I see on the screen is what I get
> when I print the page out, or very near to it. When I print this page
> out with FireFox, I see one thing on screen, another in the Print
> Preview and yet another in the actual printed page. I rewrote the page
> with CSS where I specified a link tag to the style sheet, and specified
> an attribute of media="all", and set the width for the table cells. I
> also tried creating a layout with columns and column groups and setting
> the width of the columns. The CSS appears to be taking affect when I
> load the page in the browser. When I change the rules, I see those
> changes. However, when I go to print the page, the layout I see in
> Firefox is different from what I see in the print preview which is
> different from what is on the printout. Can someone point me to a
> reference that explains the specifics of how to get a consistent layout
> on the printed page and the browser screen in Firefox?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Mazzotta
>

You may need a print specific CSS where the media=print. Printers measure
spacing in points where as screens are in pixels. This is the best hint I
can offer you.

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Ron K.
Don't be a fonted, it's just type casting.

_jazzdman@gmail.com_ spoke thusly on 20/09/2006 3:13 PM:
> I'm trying to learn CSS in the hopes of solving a problem I'm
> having with FireFox. I've created a simple web app with an HTML table
> that is populated with values from a database. The web app is written
> in PHP. The HTML that works in other browsers ( IE and Netscape) is
> written without CSS and without any specification of table cell width.
> With these other two browsers, what I see on the screen is what I get
> when I print the page out, or very near to it. When I print this page
> out with FireFox, I see one thing on screen, another in the Print
> Preview and yet another in the actual printed page. I rewrote the page
> with CSS where I specified a link tag to the style sheet, and specified
> an attribute of media="all", and set the width for the table cells. I
> also tried creating a layout with columns and column groups and setting
> the width of the columns. The CSS appears to be taking affect when I
> load the page in the browser. When I change the rules, I see those
> changes. However, when I go to print the page, the layout I see in
> Firefox is different from what I see in the print preview which is
> different from what is on the printout. Can someone point me to a
> reference that explains the specifics of how to get a consistent layout
> on the printed page and the browser screen in Firefox?

Try asking in mozilla.dev.tech.css.
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Chris Ilias
mozilla.test.multimedia moderator
Mozilla links
(Please do not email me tech support questions)

Chris Ilias wrote:

>
> Try asking in mozilla.dev.tech.css.
> --
> Chris Ilias
> mozilla.test.multimedia moderator
> Mozilla links
> (Please do not email me tech support questions)

Thanks, I'll try that.