[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: html question

Mon Apr 25 21:45:01 CDT 2005

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:29:32PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> All
> Why won't the background print?
> Code produced with Quanta  3.1.1 (Using KDE 3.1.0)
> DTD: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> Code segment: <body background="26april.jpg">
> Browsers tested: Galeon 1.3.3, Mozilla 1.7.5, FireFox 1.0
> In each case, the page displays well, but upon printing the background 
> is white (i.e., background image is omitted).
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer

This is generally an option set by the browser -- for example,
in Firefox, go to the File menu, then Page Setup, and enable "Print
Background".

There may be a way to use a print-media stylesheet to get the
background image to print, but I haven't played with that much.

Hope this helps,

Pm