CSS Styling for Print and Other Media

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By bloid
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Published: Nov 23 2006 / 23:31

There are many different media types that you can apply to CSS, some of which are more useful than others, and they let you specify the look, feel, or sound of the web page that is linked to the CSS files.

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MattGiuca replied ago:

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Some good recommendations. It's never good to see a website unprintable because it's heavily styled for the screen.

But I disagree with some of the "Not-So-Useful Media Types". Aural and braille ... well in a perfect world we'd provide these, but the article is right, probably not feasible. However, the "handheld" one is going to be more and more relevant as PDAs, Mobile phones, Handheld gaming consoles, etc, come into the market. It's definately a good idea to make sure your pages work on handheld devices, and using the "handheld" media type is a good way to fix things.

A good way to test (it seems pretty good...) is the Opera 9 browser, which has a "small screen" mode that emulates a handheld.