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Preparing the foundations With a clear final objective and some aims defined, I began work on a simple proof of concept. This is the part of the process where the visual effect looks a bit ugly but the functional parts get worked out, so don’t worry—I’ll be making it look pretty later in the chapter. I knew what the ultimate aim was (to apply it to the long-winded interest rates page that needs carving up for print), but to begin with, I created a dummy page that contained the basics. Sectioning the page The key to this technique is knowing which parts of the page you do and don’t want to print. As I saw it, this could be done using CSS classes, and the obvious choice is to use a classname of section or, if you want to make it absolutely clear of the purpose, a classname like print_section. 4 So, here’s a simple HTML page with some sections marked up (with just a sprinkling of CSS applied to help identify the boundaries): A sectioned-up web page .print_section { border:1px solid gray; background:#e1e1e1; margin:0 0 15px 0; padding:10px; } Sectioned up page Section 1 This is section 1. Nothing much to see here, just a bunch of meaningless words. Section 2 This is section 2. You'd be better off watching paint dry than reading the content here. 4. If we were using XHTML 2.0, we could opt for using a section element. See www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-structural.html#edef_ structural_section for more information. chapter 8 Print Magic: Using the DOM and CSS to Save the Planet 185
186 Section 3 This is the final section. Hurrah! Figure 8-1 shows this dummy page. Figure 8-1. Sectioning the page, ready for printing This would be the basic page (ignoring the placeholder content that I’ve used for the dummy page) that a visitor would see. Now the trick is to add in the extra layers of goodness on top for those browsers that are up to the job—progressive enhancement in action.
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CAMERON ADAMS ~ MARK BOULTON ~ ANDY
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Web Standards Creativity: Innovatio
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Contents About the Technical Review
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PART 2: EFFECTIVE PRINT TECHNIQUES
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About the Technical Reviewer Molly
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Mark Boulton I’d like to thank Kh
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Getting Creative with Web Standards
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Figure 5. The Zen Garden is still g
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Layout Magic Welcome to Part 1 of o
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Before starting Erskine Design in 2
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6 Figure 1-2. The completed Dirty P
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Dirty pretty presentation When buil
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Background Next, we apply the main
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Finally, the main content selector
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The markup is as follows. Note that
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Unless you study the end result clo
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Tables Descendant selectors are ess
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These very simple rules, and the fa
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Conclusion Of course, building the
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Dan Rubin spends his days blending
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Figure 2-1. On the left, the origin
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The CMS challenge It doesn’t take
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The next step was spending some tim
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Videos Photos Extras Links Forum St
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Ever find yourself getting lost in
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z-index:100; left:29px; top:39px; m
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By looking at the markup generated
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Creating the illusion of vertical t
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The first argument defines the CSS
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Figure 2-9. Before (right) and afte
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Such a #teaser After styling the #t
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When time is of the essence, hacks
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Ethan Marcotte has been designing a
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Getting started The article templat
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Structuring the CSS Looking above t
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Adding a layer of style OK, enough
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A quick preview of our code at this
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For our narrow, 190-pixel-wide righ
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Strictly speaking, these class name
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Our column’s “background” wil
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Figure 3-14. The exact same templat
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Figure 3-17. The anatomy of our nar
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So there we have it: a single class
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Figure 3-21. The text size can be i
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anchor.setAttribute("href", "javasc
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78 4 Designing for Outside the Box
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80 Worries? “Oh baby, what’s th
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82 Stop worrying, start with markup
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84 A third-level heading proudly an
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86 Adding divisions from the conten
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88 With the elements and appropriat
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90 Styling WorrySome.net Whereas ma
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92 Take a peek at how your design i
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94 The final result of your column-
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96 Each of the paragraphs of introd
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98 While floats and image replaceme
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100 Well, maybe you’re not quite
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102 This will be followed by a spec
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104 The result of this is that your
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106 We'll give you another look at
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108 5 Creative Use of PNG Transpare
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110 PNG, GIF, and JPEG The PNG imag
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112 The image that needs to work on
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114 Wilson includes his transparent
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116 Now I’ll create a 1-by-1-pixe
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118 In another creative example, de
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120 A bit of CSS is then used t
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122 And then the CSS: a.photo-conta
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124 I’ve specified #cc0000
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126 However, I’ve reversed their
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128 var div = document.createElemen
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130 6 Grid Design for the Web mark
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132 What is a grid system? A grid s
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238 ghostMarker.marked.appendChild(
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240 Keeping track of changes The te
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10 242 Accessible Sliding Navigatio
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244 The killer feature Admit it. Yo
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246 Accessibility and JavaScript Fo
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248 After the main link is clicked,
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250 Switching between CSS states wi
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252 Adding sliding behaviors Now th
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254 // set the height to a new valu
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256 When using a screen magnifier,
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258 If the user does repeat the “
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260 There may be unforeseen consequ
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262 Croft, Jeff, 109 CSS (Cascading
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264 max-width, 58, 71 @media print,
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266 websites A List Apart, 134 New
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