Last modified: 2008-09-04 03:18:00 UTC
Could I request that, ala Monobook.css and Common.css, we are given access to commonPrint.css? Currently we have a problem where some links are automatically doing URL expansion, which is mucking up [[Template:Ref]] and [[Template:Note]]. This is causing problems for at least one editor, who is trying to create PDFs out of webpages.
What you can do is put an @media print section into [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]. You may be able to override things with !important declarations.
OK, though I'm no real expert at CSS :( I have noted this on [[User:Lupo]]'s page... thanks for the suggestion!
Note that @media-specified rules currently won't be used for the "printable version" link, which is kind of confusing, but it's hard to see a fix unless you can somehow force the browser to interpret the page as printed.
Bug 13970 related.
*** Bug 13831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Done in r36308
Doesn't actually work -- applies in ?printable=yes print mode simulation, but not to the actual print stylesheet. Reverted in r36474
Created attachment 5003 [details] r3638 - New Same as r3638 but accounting for printing. I favoured an if-based approach for clarity, but you may prefer a ternary operator. It's up to the committer :-)
Merged Platonides and my patches in r36535. Now applies to printable=yes and to actual print media.
It seems like the best way to do this would be to add another <link> attribute (below the current existing one) pointing to the appropriate MW message. And in printable=yes, remove the media="print". In template skins: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css?156" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Print.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=2678400" /> And in cologneblue/standard/nostalgia: <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='print' href='/skins-1.5/common/wikiprintable.css?156' /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Print.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=2678400" /> (In reply to comment #1) > What you can do is put an @media print section into [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]. Unlike @media print, the media="print" from the link is (and so can be) removed on printable=yes, allowing all changes in commonPrint.css (and hypothetically in this implementation of MediaWiki:Print.css), to apply without printing (or print preview). 2 cents
Reopening, since the patch was self-reverted by ^demon in r36536.
Re-did in r40414, using the happy new style setup methods. MediaWiki:Print.css available by default; MediaWiki:Handheld.css used if $wgHandheldStyle set up.
