HTML Tutorials: Hide from Print

Have you ever wished you could hide a portion of HTML from being printed when a visitor prints a web page? Well, believe it or not, it's a simple feat to accomplish, and it will leave observant viewers thoroughly astounded by your greatness.

Hiding objects from print is something we like to do on Spoono on certain pages like this one. We hide undesirable objects like ads and the back button below from printing. (Go to Print Preview to see for yourself). This trick can be accomplished by creating a print-only style that has a hidden visibility and applying it to certain objects. The most efficient way to do this is by linking to an external CSS document like so:

Note that the media attribute is set to the value "print." This tells browsers to only use the classes in this file when printing. If you also have a regular CSS file that loads styles for regular screen display, you can leave the code for that untouched. Now, the following is the code that needs to go into your hide.css file (or whatever you've named it):

.hide {
display: none;
}

That was certainly simple enough. The last step is to define the hide class for the content that you want to hide. To do this, you can add a class attribute to any of the following tags: <div> <p> <span> <td> plus many others. So here is an example for the code of hidden content:

<div class="hide">
THIS CONTENT IS HIDDEN
</div>

That's it. Now don't you feel sneaky?

Tutorials: HTML

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Step By Step Beginner to Advanced		HTML Tutorial A step by step tutorial on HTML starting with the basics including common tags, fonts, text, links, images, and lists. The advanced portion of this tutorials covers popular items such as forms, tables, frames, counters, guestbooks and more.

Beginner		Backgrounds: Tutorial Learn how to effectively add backgrounds to your page that make your page look professional or amateur.

Intermediate		Imagemaps: Tutorial Make one image into various clickable regions using only HTML

Advanced		Embedding Fonts: Tutorial Learn how to use uncommon fonts in web pages by embedding them.

Intermediate		Images: Tutorial Positioning images can make your images look just right when inserted into text.

Intermediate		Form Effects: Tutorial Learn how to create trendy forms with simple style commands as well as with CSS classes.

Advanced		Layers: Tutorial Layers can make complicated image placement possible.

Advanced		Forms: Tutorial Use forms to gather information from your users.

Beginner		Links: Tutorial Making links in HTML is the easiest thing you will ever do.

Advanced		Frames: Tutorial Learn how to create frames that enable you to create navigation systems on your site.

Advanced		Scrollbars: Tutorial Learn how to add effects to your scrollbars and add flavor to your page.

Intermediate		Hide From Print: Tutorial Learn how to only allow a visitor to print part of your page using CSS.

Advanced		SSI: Tutorial Learning how to do SSI will save you a lot of authoring time.

Beginner		Horizontal Line: Tutorial The horizontal line serves as a great separator tool.

Intermediate		Table Styles: Tutorial Learn how to add various table styles such as dash or dot borders, and many other things.

Advanced		Iframes: Tutorial Iframes can organize your website into clean sections.

Intermediate		Tables: Tutorial Organize your web page layouts with tables.

Beginner		216 Web Safe Color Chart: Tutorial The 216-color color-safe palette refers to colors (RGB values) that will appear the same on either IE or Netscape and Windows or Mac platforms.

Intermediate		Pantone RGB/Hex/HTML Colors: Tutorial This table contains all pantone colors converted to RGB and Hex. It displays them all in HTML colors.

HTML Tutorials: Hide from Print

Tutorials: HTML

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HTML Tutorials