Automatically print Landscape orientation

[StuckInTheMiddle]

I have a simple problem, which i thought had a simple solution. Use CSS to set the page output when printed to be landscape as below.

BODY {
Size: 8.5in 11in landscape;
Margin: 0.25in; }

But this doesnt appear to work for me, ive tried it in both IE6 or Netscape 7. Several online sources say it should so i was wondering does anysee anything i am doing wrong. Ive dried saying 11in 8.5in and with landscape and also the @PAGE directive too, with no joy.

Any help appreciated, i cant be this hard to print something in Landscape!

(The more ASP.NET I do, the more Javascript I find myself using)

 

[xutopia]

this is new waters for me.

try adding media="print" in your style tag.

<style media=&quot;print&quot;>
/* css here */
</style>

It might not work at all. Check to see if any browsers support this CSS. It might be too recent of a standard that is not yet implemented too. Try the media=&quot;print&quot; thing and if that doesn't work I wouldn't know what to tell you.

Someone probably knows better than I do here. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[StuckInTheMiddle]

Hi Gary,

I had previously tried media print, thanks for your advice tho, and yes it does indeed look like its too new a CSS standard to be supported.

I must admit I thought the need to print a page LANDSCAPE would have been a core requirement, oh well, c'est la vie, as the french canadian's say.


(The more ASP.NET I do, the more Javascript I find myself using)

 

[NigeW]

I've previously used external style sheets with success however cannot confirm cross browser compatibility

The links I used are

<link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=css/styles.css&quot; media=&quot;screen&quot; />

<link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;css/printpage.css&quot; media=&quot;print&quot; />

And the style within the printpage.css should be

size : landscape;

This I have not tried, but merely gleaned from a web search and via Homesite / TopStyleLite

Hope it helps / works

 

[StuckInTheMiddle]

The use of external style sheets is not the issue here. Browser support of the CSS standard for printing in landscape is.

The above doesn't work, i had previsouly seen and tried the example you mention.

Thanks, close but no cigar


(The more ASP.NET I do, the more Javascript I find myself using)