CSS for print tutorial

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Introduction

Learning goals

• Be able to style text-centric HTML pages (e.g. articles, tutorials, novels)

Prerequisites

• CSS tutorial
• Font readability
• CSS text styling tutorial
• CSS media and alternative style sheets tutorial

Level and target population

• Beginners

Teaching materials

• Example text: http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/css/ex/just-so-stories-print.html

Remarks

• This tutorial is intended for students in educational technology or any other field that is technology intensive. For people who need less, there exist many easy CSS tutorials on the web. This text is intended for students who also must learn principles and who are willing to learn CSS by doing a project, looking at CSS code and online reference manuals.
• Ideally, a teacher also should assign a text formatting task, during or before assigning this tutorial for reading).

Setting up the stylesheet for printing

As explained in the CSS media and alternative style sheets tutorial, there are three ways for defining alternative styles:

(1) Use @media rules in a stylesheet

(2) Define an alternative stylesheet in the HTML

(3) Define an alternative stylesheet in the CSS