Web Page Margins - Help

[desrev1]

Gang,

Well...I may have screwed up. Just like everyone else who is conscientious about how their web pages print...after I installed IE6 & found that certain pages printed with their margins cut off on the right, I went into Page Setup & reduced the margins to their lowest default settings (.25" left & right, .7" top & .46" bottom.) Did the same thing on my machine at work.

Then...I designed a form in Dreamweaver MX for my company's website to that criteria. I would preview & print every so often to make sure the printed page was aligned correctly.

Now...the forms (which require the end user to print the form after entering the data, because the company requires a hand written signature) begin to roll in to the office with the right side of the page cut off.

So my questions are:

1) Since a lot of users don't change their default settings in IE, what are the default margins?

2) What would be an acceptable document width/res to insure this does not happen? I initially used 760 X 420 (800 X 600 Maximized) as the page size; & noticed that the doc is 771 X 334 (when maximized), but should I squeeze it up a bit on the vertical. I am assuming the users who are turning in the cut off forms have monitor res settings of 800 X 600, but I discounted default margin settings in IE.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

DesRev1

 

[lebisol]

Modify---Page properties - margins "0"...all arround

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[YNOTU]

I'm not too sure printing can be set globaly since the page will print in the user's browser/printer. You many have to look into using CSS to set a printing version of it.

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[YNOTU]

Having said that check this faq215-4499

 

[lebisol]

DeCojute!
thanx for the CSS that is pretty nice trick...

__side note:
however, if ur using dynamic pages this CSS will not be enough, u would have to consider some function to "cut" the 'text string' if txt_string>50 chars etc.
this function would be applied on the cell/row-content that possibly has a lot of chracters

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[desrev1]

So guys...

Thanks for all the info. I design w/ multiple layers, so I'll have to realign everything further left.

What's a good all-around page pixel width to be safe? 660? 680? 700?

Also; does anyone know the default margin settings in IE6?

Thanks,

DesRev1