How do I set-up web pages as "Print this page"?

Question

Some web sites have a "Print this page" facility thus avoiding printing frames, adverts and code etc., but many do not. Yes, you can copy/paste the web page contents to a word processor but there is obviously a simpler way of doing this, anyone know how I can do this?

Answer 1

two ways - set up a different page template that draws in the same content but only the essential items.

Secondly design .CSS for print only (media="print") and set it to not display certain areas of the page (display: "none").

I could go into it in a lot more detail but I'd be here for ever, look up stuff on PHP Include and print media .CSS and it'll give you loads of stuff the read up on.

Answer 2

oh yeah. i remember that. some sites have that option. think back the dos days, when you press the print button on the keyboad, it prints. only on dos. not windows