Cannot print table background color

[Jason Chan]

I have a cell in table with background color set to red, for example

<table>
<tr><td bgcolor="red">A BC</td></tr>
</table>

I print this page to a color printer, however, no background color is
printed (red in this case)

So if it a IE problem or HTML behavior like this?

Thanks in advance,
Jason

[Els]

Re: Cannot print table background color

Jason Chan wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a cell in table with background color set to red, for example
>
> <table>
> <tr><td bgcolor="red">A BC</td></tr>
> </table>
>
> I print this page to a color printer, however, no background color is
> printed (red in this case)
>
> So if it a IE problem or HTML behavior like this?[/color]

IE: internet options -> advanced tab -> printing: print background
colours and images

(or something similar, as I just translated that from Dutch)


--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: UB40 - Groovin' (Out On Life)

[David Dorward]

Re: Cannot print table background color

Jason Chan wrote:
[color=blue]
> I print this page to a color printer, however, no background color is
> printed (red in this case)
>
> So if it a IE problem or HTML behavior like this?[/color]

Most browsers come with a preference to prevent the printing of background
colours and images (since they aren't part of the content and just munch
through expensive ink/toner). Its usually on by default.

It isn't a problem with the browser, not a design if HTML - its a user's
decision.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Philipp Lenssen]

Re: Cannot print table background color

David Dorward wrote:
[color=blue]
> Jason Chan wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I print this page to a color printer, however, no background color
> > is printed (red in this case)
> >
> > So if it a IE problem or HTML behavior like this?[/color]
>
> Most browsers come with a preference to prevent the printing of
> background colours and images (since they aren't part of the content
> and just munch through expensive ink/toner). Its usually on by
> default.
>
> It isn't a problem with the browser, not a design if HTML - its a
> user's decision.[/color]

It's more like a manufacturer's decision -- most users certainly won't
fiddle around with those settings. (And no, I don't have stats at hand,
but I watch people use browsers.) More advanced users like you and me
certainly know how to handle settings, or even to write a
user-stylesheet.

--
Google Blogoscoped

http://blog.outer-court.com

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Cannot print table background color

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Philipp Lenssen wrote:
[color=blue]
> David Dorward wrote:
>[color=green]
> > It isn't a problem with the browser, not a design if HTML - its a
> > user's decision.[/color]
>
> It's more like a manufacturer's decision[/color]

Do we *have* to have this pointless argument about *every* browser
option which gets raised? This is an HTML authoring group, after all.
[color=blue]
> -- most users certainly won't fiddle around with those settings.[/color]

The browser developers evidently thought it was sufficiently important
to implement a user option. Along with all the other user options
that they implemented (which, it seems, you would have us believe are
practically never used).
[color=blue]
> (And no, I don't have stats at hand,[/color]

For HTML authoring purposes, fortunately, I don't need them; I
wouldn't believe them anyway, since I know there's no reliable way of
collecting them.
[color=blue]
> but I watch people use browsers.)[/color]

Well, some of the people I watch are rather more discerning in their
use of browsers.

The "manufactur er" decided to offer a user option, that much is clear.
*They* must have thought it was worth their effort, even if you
believe that hardly anybody will ever use it.

[Harlan Messinger]

Re: Cannot print table background color

David Dorward wrote:[color=blue]
> Jason Chan wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>I print this page to a color printer, however, no background color is
>>printed (red in this case)
>>
>>So if it a IE problem or HTML behavior like this?[/color]
>
>
> Most browsers come with a preference to prevent the printing of background
> colours and images (since they aren't part of the content and just munch
> through expensive ink/toner). Its usually on by default.
>
> It isn't a problem with the browser, not a design if HTML - its a user's
> decision.[/color]

An obviously necessary one--imagine how much ink would be wasted if
colored backgrounds in the browser were also rendered by default on the
printer.