CSS for Print Media - What to do with a FORM?

[Drew PCR]

I'm dealing with creating an HTML page for use in a web-based software. The
user wants to be able to use a print-only stylesheet when sending this HTML
<form> page to the printer. I know I can convert scrolling textareas and input
boxes into flat, borderless text with ease in the CSS, but what about SELECT
dropdowns and checkboxes? Is there any way to turn these form elements into
flattened text output when sending the page to the printer?

[Murray *ACE*]

I'm not sure why you want to do this? But - no, there's no way you can do
that as far as I know....

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"Drew PCR" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm dealing with creating an HTML page for use in a web-based software.
> The
> user wants to be able to use a print-only stylesheet when sending this
> HTML
> <form> page to the printer. I know I can convert scrolling textareas and
> input
> boxes into flat, borderless text with ease in the CSS, but what about
> SELECT
> dropdowns and checkboxes? Is there any way to turn these form elements
> into
> flattened text output when sending the page to the printer?
>

[Drew PCR]

Well, basically I'm dealing with a form that's HTML based, but the guy needs to
print it off as a PDF to mail. The problem is that the software wasn't
designed for that sort of thing, and when you print the page, it still looks
like a web form. I wanted to see if I could use the @media=print rig to
convert it into something that didn't look like a website. I got it all
figured out as long as he doesn't need checkboxes or selects... just wondered
if there was a nice way around those.

[Murray *ACE*]

Can you imagine what a state list or country list would do to the format of
your printed form? The only way I can think of to get what you might use
would be to have the print stylesheet to display:none the <select> tags and
correspondingly display:block some 'mock' input fields for this data.

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"Drew PCR" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Well, basically I'm dealing with a form that's HTML based, but the guy
> needs to
> print it off as a PDF to mail. The problem is that the software wasn't
> designed for that sort of thing, and when you print the page, it still
> looks
> like a web form. I wanted to see if I could use the @media=print rig to
> convert it into something that didn't look like a website. I got it all
> figured out as long as he doesn't need checkboxes or selects... just
> wondered
> if there was a nice way around those.
>

[Drew PCR]

Yeah, the idea was to convert the selected text in a one-line select dropdown
into flat text. As for checkboxes, I was trying to find a way to javascript
them so that a class was added to the checked items. Unfortunately that
doesn't get rid of the labels. :P

Oh well. Guess it's text fields and boxes only!