Don't put title in a <link> tag

07 January 2006 3 comments Web development

This blog post is 14 years old! Most likely, its content is outdated. Especially if it's technical.

I learnt an important lesson today about the <link> tag. I had a XHTML Strict that looked like this:

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

And every time I tried to print the page it did not correctly incorporate the print.css file. The file gets downloaded by the client but not incorporated. After a lot of trial and errors and testing I finally discovered why. The title attribute stops the link tag from working.

The correct way to declare a link tag for a media="print" is to do the following:

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

Hopefully this will help someone else getting into the same pickle as I was in.

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kent 09 January 2006 Reply

helvete vad tråkig sida. jag kräks. hoppas du hade en trvlig kinatrip. tjock.

Anonymous 22 December 2008 Reply

Hi for me when i use this link tag, the url is printing when i gave print as follows.
<html>
<head>
<link rel=alternate media=print href="http://someserver/abc.doc">
</head>
<body onload=window.print()>
</body>
</html>

Lakshmi Ramya 22 December 2008 Reply

Hi for me when i use this link tag, the url is printing when i gave print as follows.
<html>
<head>
<link rel=alternate media=print href="http://someserver/abc.doc">
</head>
<body onload=window.print()>
</body>
</html>

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