Checklist item: Pages use print CSS statements to enable proper printing.
Guideline: CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document. CSS also allows authors to specify a stylesheet that is only used when printing. This can be very useful and allows for neatly styled printouts that hide non-essential parts of the page and only contain the main content.
The stylesheet can be customized to meeet the specific needs of a site. Here are some ideas for what to put in your print stylesheet:
• Removing navigation aids such as menus, breadcrumbs and search boxes
• Suppressing background colours [colors] and background images
• Changing font (from a serif which is used by most Web pages, to a serifed font)
• Changing text line-height (leading)
• Exposing link URLs through generated content (advanced browsers only, e.g. Opera, Firefox)
Examples:
Page view
Print view
