Can I Change Page Layout When Using Window.print()?

In our application we enable users to print pages. We do this by supplying a button which when click calls the window.print() function. Some of the pages would look better if they

Solution 1:

You should use a print stylesheet.

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

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How to print only parts of a page?

Edit: to coerce landscape orientation, apparently the standard is size: landscape, but I have no idea how well that's supported across browsers.

Solution 2:

Do it with CSS by including a print stylesheet thusly:

<styletype="text/css"media="print">@import url("/inc/web.print.css");</style>

Solution 3:

I think your question is not so much about using CSS to define print styles, but to force the print as landscape rather than portrait?

CSS 2 defined 'size', but I don't think this is widly supported: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_ref_print.asp

CSS 3 has better print control, but again not widly supported.

Solution 4:

Unfortunately, this is still not possible cross-browser. For Internet Explorer, there is an ActiveX control that does it.

Otherwise your best bet might be to offer the option of a PDF version for printing.