Optimize Your Links For Print Using CSS — Show The URL
When moving around from page to page in your trusty browser, you get the benefit of hovering over links and viewing the link's target URL in the status bar. When it comes to page printouts, however, this obviously isn't an option. Most website printouts simply show the link as text with an underline. What good is that?
Providing URLs for links in the print version of your page can be extremely helpful to the reader. Using a small snippet of CSS code, you can get printouts to display link URLs right next to the link text.
The CSS Code
a:link:after, a:visited:after { content:" [" attr(href) "] "; }The pitfall of this method of displaying links URLs for print is that Internet Explorer ignores this code. If showing link URLs is critical, I'd recommend using a JavaScript alternative. If not, add this snippet to your print stylesheet to make your page print-outs more informative.
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Good trick for printing a web page. But as usual, this simple tricks are not working with internet explorer
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I figured out how to get around this not working in IE6 and IE7 by using jQuery and a couple of proprietary IE events to show the link when printing. Any interest in porting it to mootools?
http://beckelman.net/post/2009/02/16/Use-jQuery-to-Show-a-Linke28099s-Address-After-its-Text-When-Printing-In-IE6-and-IE7.aspx
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Is there something I can do as an end-user to print the links when printing a webpage? The CSS method (as well as jQuery method posted by Bill in a comment) seems to be intended for the author of the web page. How do I do this as an end-user given that the author has not done this? I could not find any Firefox add-on that does this.
Is there something I can do as an end-user to print the links when printing a web-page? The CSS method (as well as jQuery method posted by Bill in a comment) seems to be intended for the author of the web page. How do I do this as an end-user given that the author has not done this? I could not find any Firefox add-on that does this.