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Styles not showing in IE

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:47 pm
by pickle
Hi all,

Something very bizarre has happened to me today. Suddenly, CSS is not being shown in the print window - just plain not being shown. I've tried a simple page like:

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<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table style = "background-color:#000000;">
      <tr>
        <td style = "background-color:#FFFFFF;">
          Test
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>
And even THAT isn't showing up when printing. The frustrating thing is that it works in both browsers I have on my computer (Firefox 1.0 and IE 6.0), but it doesn't work in IE anywhere else where I work.

Does anyone have ANY ideas? Thanks.

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:26 am
by Chris Corbyn
It doesn't work in IE for me neither. I thought it was just the same for everyone. I've tried to print web pages and the CSS just looks blank.

I'm not aware of anything you can change to make it work. I've just ended up doing screenshots. I'm not even sure it worked in NS7 - I would have thought I would have tried it before doing screenshots.... then again I wouldn't have put it past me! ;-)

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:59 am
by pickle
The weird thing is that it used to work just fine, but a couple days ago, it just stopped. Thanks for re-assuring me that IE is crap.

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:14 am
by John Cartwright
Worked fine for me... windows 2000

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:54 am
by Joe
It works fine for me. I am not sure here but I have came across something similar before. My best bet is that the inline styles are the problem for IE.

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:52 pm
by rehfeld
i dont think it has anything to do w/ inline styles or css

theres a setting in ie, i think default is not to print background colors and stuff.

tools>internet options>advanced

>print background colors and images

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:51 pm
by pickle
rehfeld wrote:i dont think it has anything to do w/ inline styles or css

theres a setting in ie, i think default is not to print background colors and stuff.

tools>internet options>advanced

>print background colors and images

You're my new favorite person. Thanks a million!!!