07 January 2006 3 comments Web development
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.
<html>
<head>
<link rel=alternate media=print href="http://someserver/abc.doc">
</head>
<body onload=window.print()>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel=alternate media=print href="http://someserver/abc.doc">
</head>
<body onload=window.print()>
</body>
</html>