OT: Using CSS for layering (was RE: web design and screen resolution)

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 20:15 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 19:54 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> > It looks like you may be encountering a defect in the browser at this point.  The code you have SHOULD print correctly.  That it doesn't is a sign the browser is not rendering the page correctly.
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> Actually, I wondered that myself since I am developing the code on a
> remote system that has CentOS 4 which has Firefox 1.07 so I downloaded
> it back to my house BEFORE I posted it - just to verify and it does very
> similar things on Firefox 1.15 and IE 6.01 on my WinXP system so that in
> my mind rules out browser issue. (the same code I posted this last
> time). Same thing with Firefox 1.07 on my Linux desktop too (FC-4)
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> > I noticed one thing from earlier.  When you placed the image in the DIV background, it viewed correctly on screen, but did not print at all.  One of the settings in most browsers is whether to print background colors and images or not.  The default in many systems is to not print these things.  In Firefox you can change this via File|Page Setup.  I wonder if you might have better results if you tried putting the image on the background again, and just set that option before print preview?
> > It wouldn't be ideal, but it should at least get you the option to produce what you're looking for in the face of this defect in the browser's CSS z-ordering support.
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> yeah - html printing options are kind of lousy and I can probably do
> that - that's clearly not the direction I wanted to go...as you know, I
> can just put in a table to contain objects where I want them to be and
> be done with it...It's just a new setup and I'm trying to work out all
> of the modeling before I start making dozens of print forms. 
> 
> The truth is that all the web browsers also default to putting url's,
> page numbers, date & time and stuff on printouts so the page setup
> options will have to be visited anyway...as far as I can tell, those
> settings seem to get lost when you quit and restart Firefox.
> 
> Thanks for the great wisdom - as always - you are the best...
> 
> ps...I am trying to work through the examples in the css section of
> w3.org that you pointed out in case I am missing something but it
> appears that on screen is one thing and on paper is an entirely
> different matter for html.
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yup - even the simple walk throughs on w3.org work fine on screen and
fall apart on print

;-(

Table forced formatting...here I come

Craig