So, since several of my articles are recipes and how-to's, I decided that it would be nice to enable this feature on my site. With this in mind, I went in search of some code and then began tweaking it on my test blog. After I got the actual button positioned and the code in place, I started to run tests in Firefox to see if it actually worked. I hit print preview and I noticed that whatever I did, only one page of my article would appear. No page two, no comments.
After several hours of trying to figure this thing out, I eventually ran across a posting in a forum which stated that this is a known issue in Firefox, but in IE or Chrome, it prints the entire post w/ comments. I switched over to IE and sure enough, it worked just fine. So, I now needed to search for a fix and after about thirty minutes of searching, I found one. Although this feature is not yet available on this site, I have incorporated it on the new template I am working on and I am hopeful to be able to transfer my blog to that template within the next few days.
If you're interested, here is the code I used WITH the fix (overflow:visible;) and the IE fix in bold and enlarged...
<style type='text/css'>
@media print{
body{margin: 10px; background-color:#FFFFFF; background-image:none;
font:color:#000000 }
p{font:14pt Arial;}
#main-wrapper{ overflow:visible;width:100%;}
.post
#header{ display:none;}
#left-sidebar-wrapper{ display:none;}
#right-sidebar-wrapper{ display:none;}
<!--[if !IE]>
#footer-wrapper{ display:none;}
.fineprint{ display:none;}
.comment-footer{ display:none;}
.feed-links{ display:none;}
#backlinks-container{ display:none;}
#blog-pager-newer-link{ display:none;}
#blog-pager-older-link{ display:none;}
#blog-pager{ display:none;}
<![endif]-->
This should be placed directly before the </head> tag.
I still need to add additional formatting to this code, but it works.
Oh, here's the code for the button
<form><input onclick='window.print();return false;' type='button' value=' Print this Article '/></form>
If you are currently having this same problem, here is the link to the site where I found the fix... forums.cnet.com
Can't you tell that this post was thrown together at the last minute??
