Help talk:Printing

message: I'm trying to figure out where the printable version link is actually useful. If the browser does not support CSS, then the printable version is of no use, as it depends on stylesheets. Even with CSS, the printable version does not apply any @media print rules, nor does it apply browser formatting such as headers, footers and page numbers, making its use as a print preview very limited.
Using the Firefox Accessibility Extension, I can disable CSS. This makes it very obvious that CSS is used to format the printable version page and without CSS, the printable version is useless.
--Gadget850 (talk) 13:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not entirely sure, but i believe there was a time that several major browsers did not support "<link media=print>" (did not use print style sheets when printing), but did support enough CSS to print the printable version when commanded to. IE5 perhaps ? --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah! Now that I know what to look for, this handy chart shows that IE5, IE6 and others do not support <link media= "print">. --Gadget850 (talk) 14:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

text: But these browsers also do not support @media print. So- it looks like the stylesheets would apply, but not the @media print rules. I probably have IE5 or 6 on my NT box (if it fires up). --Gadget850 (talk) 14:14, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. As far as I know, we only VERY sparsely uses @media print rules. Those are more useful for user's CSS stylesheets. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:43, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printable version 

message: Can anyone tell me why the print version shows succession boxes but not navigation boxes? Was there a consensus reached on this at some point? ("Self-reference" can't be the answer, can it? That would exclude "See also".) 205.172.16.60 (talk) 23:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As noted in the lead, "Certain page elements that are self-references within Wikipedia normally do not print; these include section edit links, navigation boxes, message boxes and metadata." AS to who decided and why, you can dig through the archived discussions at MediaWiki talk:Common.css and Template talk:Navbox. If you really want to print navboxes, I can figure out a CSS hack, but you will have to register for an account. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 00:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your help. I did a search for "print" in the two archives you recommended. Nothing helpful came up. Should I use another term? 205.172.16.60 (talk) 01:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info not printed? 

message: Hi guys! I was curious to know if there is a (possibly easy) way to print the "standard" version of a page (including navbars, etc.), if one wishes, instead of the "printable" version... If there is a such way, the help page should tell it ("Personal customization" section seems to be too complex for standard use). --Gig (talk) 11:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like User:TheDJ/Print dialog should do what you want. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:14, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printing without printable version? 

message: I can see that a lot of thought and effort has gone into making Wikipedia pages printable. However, this comment was motivated by my experience in trying to print the page at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spaceflight/Assessment
What happened? Some nearly blank pages. Color information completelely lost. Typeface very small. Major table was truncated on the right. The printout was useless.
Why print from Wikipedia? Sometimes I prefer to have the topic on paper instead of one more tab on my browser or file on my computer. For example, the use of an article can be greatly facilitated by being able to carry a printout to another venue, or by simply handing a printout to another person (who might not be computer-facile). To date, paper has a definite edge in some areas of utility and convenience.
I encourage people with the right talents and access to continue to work on improving the printing capabilities of material from the Internet, and in particular, from Wikipedia articles.
Likewise, I encourage those who believe the world should be moving towards paperless-ness to continue inventing ways of handling text and graphical information with greater agility than today's display hardware and software. Wcmead3 (talk) 18:59, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Woof. That page layout is horrible. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 00:55, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks better using PrintFriendly. Collapsed content is not shown. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 01:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printable? 

message: "Remember that rules using @media print will show— or not show if that is the intent —in print preview but not printable version." I think this sentence is pretty unclear. Does it mean that whatever you change in your skin.css, it will only be valid for the print preview but the printed result will not be different? That would be pretty silly. But what else is the sentence supposed to mean? --FA2010 (talk) 15:22, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Printable version does not honor @media print rules but the browser print view does. --  Gadget850 talk 23:05, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And what's the point of this behaviour? --FA2010 (talk) 18:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean? 

message: Hello, I'm from wikipt
We also use Template:Collapsible list within infoboxes but the data aren't printed, is there any other hide/show we should use within infoboxes? Thanks a lot.
Dianakc (talk) 20:28, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Collapsible list can't be printed? 

message: Hello,
I need to print only some parts of a page. I tried to use ... on my page but the text is still here in the printable version.
Does anyone have an idea to solve my problem ?
Thanks
--Nanoukaplus (talk) 14:59, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specify parts of a page to be printed 

message: How can I print a page without any templates or pictures but with font and size settings? Clayblockmc (talk) 18:20, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot print without templates, since templates are generators of output, for all intents and purposes, they don't exist when you view or print a page. My print dialog script has some additional options to hide or show certain features, but if you want more than that, you'll likely have to write your own print CSS styling. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:15, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text only printing 

message: Searching the wikitext of all pages for a media=print, with or without spaces and quotes:
It says this is used in wikitext, but is it really?  Should we update or clarify this statement in the page: "...browsers will parse the media="print" CSS styles included in the markup of Wikipedia pages."? 21:07, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Searches for said media = print 

message: The first sentence is incomprehensible. Wtf is the "MediaWiki sidebar on"?
The statement "The default Vector skin has a selection in the left sidebar for 'Print page'" is not true for me, using Chrome, with the Vector skin. The left sidebar has no such item.
Maproom (talk) 09:02, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two comments 

message: There are two type of issue i am facing in Wikimedia printable view :
1) Format issue
2) Printable PopUp(Javascript Print POP) Comes two times
Kindly help me here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.1.18.25 (talk) 05:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printable PopUp(Javascript Print POP) Comes two times