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Points: 1479 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 December 2003 at 2:07pm
it's a client only option... you could put a picture as the background with a width and height of 100% and then put an invisible layer to put your content in on top of the picture
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 December 2003 at 7:37am
Naah, just make a 1X1 gif file, with only one color in it: your BG color. Then, use that as a background picture. Or won't it print that one to?
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Points: 1718 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 December 2003 at 8:29am
i wont print any backgrounds.. it ignores all bg and background tags when printing..
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 December 2003 at 8:32am
Anyway, that option is 'there' for a reason. Why avoiding it? If the page looks like , the client will probably print it out again WITH the option disabled (you might want to put some instructions there).
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Points: 1718 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 December 2003 at 8:37am
AND if you have a colored background, and the user have only black/white printer then itll look like sh*t!
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 December 2003 at 8:40am
 Yes, it sure would
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Points: 326 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 December 2003 at 2:47am

Again, as soemone stated earlier, read my original question...

I am trying to split/differentiate between a whole bunch of rows in a table by making the background colour alternate between white and grey (light grey). Even if the user doesn't have a colour printer, this should still look good. (BTW where can I get hold of a black & WHITE printer from???).

Also, as stated in the original question, I am fully aware that users can change their IE settings, but I really want to avoid that if possible - hence the question!!!

Anyway, it looks like this is not possible - I was kinda hoping that someone out there had figured out a way around this.
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 December 2003 at 7:09am

Mmm, in simple HTML, no you can't. If you use Flash, you might get print problems. But if you'd set the background of the rows to #CCCCCC and #EEEEEE or something like that it should appear on a black and white printer.

Or... you can make some sort of printer version, in CSS. This should be described in the <link> tags, like this:



<!-- Display colors -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/base.css" />
<!-- Look, there's one for printing too =D -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/print.css" media="print" />

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