CSS Printing @media Rule

You can use CSS to change the appearance of your web page when it's printed on a paper. You can specify one font for the screen version and another for the print version.

You have seen @media rule in previous chapters. This rule allows you to specify different style for different media. So, you can define different rules for screen and a printer.

The example below specifies different font families for screen and print. The next CSS uses the same font size for both screen as well as printer.

<style tyle="text/css">

   <!--

   @media screen

   {

      p.bodyText {font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;}

   }

 

   @media print

   {

      p.bodyText {font-family:georgia, times, serif;}

   }

   @media screen, print

   {

      p.bodyText {font-size:10pt}

   }

   -->

</style>

If you are defining your style sheet in a separate file, then you can also use the media attribute when linking to an external style sheet −

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="mystyle.css">