Christian Heilmann

Printing background images

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005 at 12:13 pm

One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed.
This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings:
printing backgrounds in MSIE
In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:
printing backgrounds in Firefox

[tags]printing, webdevtrick[/tags]

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