Better printed page links

November 25th, 2005 @ 8am : 1 comment : Socialize This
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This is in a word…FANTASTIC!

I was hunting around for some print style sheet tweaks for a client. Seems they have a very wide horizontal table that of course when printed cuts off the right side. No Duh! so I’m surfing around checking various leads on Google or whatever search engine and I come across this article

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/improvingprint

I’m sure you’ve all printed a web page that contains links. You get the link text that is shown on the web page but not the actual URL. Since this is a printed document you can’t really hover over the link text to see the URL href or anything. So basically you’re screwed! The first iteration of a solution was to move the links inline. Well as is mentioned in the article it makes the text you are printed very unreadable.

So the solution is to put footnotes next to the link text that reference the URL at the bottom of the printed page.

I’m totally blown away. Thanks Aaron

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One Response to “Better printed page links”

  1. banki Says:
    May 1st, 2011 at 7:11 am

    You write really interesting, the topics are interesting. I like this web page. For how long have you been blogging? How much time do you spend on this? I hope that I can use some of your texts on my web page. Yours, Ann