How to create a printable Twitter-Bootstrap page
I'm using Twitter-Bootstrap and I need to be able to print the page the way it looks on the browser. I'm able to print other pages made with Twitter-Bootstrap just fine but I can't seem to print my page that uses purely Twitter-Bootstrap. Am I missing a tag somewhere?
Official TB page when printed:
My page when printed:
What my page actually looks like:
Solution 1:
Bootstrap 3.2 update: (current release)
Current stable Bootstrap version is 3.2.0.
With version 3.2 visible-print deprecated, so you should use like this:
Class Browser Print
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.visible-print-block Hidden Visible (as block)
.visible-print-inline Hidden Visible (as inline)
.visible-print-inline-block Hidden Visible (as inline-block)
.hidden-print Visible Hidden
Bootstrap 3 update:
Print classes are now in documents: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#responsive-utilities-print
Similar to the regular responsive classes,
use these for toggling content for print.
Class Browser Print
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.visible-print Hidden Visible
.hidden-print Visible Hidden
Bootstrap 2.3.1 version:
After adding bootstrap.css file into your HTML,
Find the parts that you don't want to print and add hidden-print
class into tags.
Because css file includes this:
@media print {
.visible-print { display: inherit !important; }
.hidden-print { display: none !important; }
}
Solution 2:
Be sure to have a stylesheet assigned for printing.
It could be a separate stylesheet:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css">
or one you share for all devices:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bootstrap.min.css"> # Note there's no media attribute
Then, you can write your styles for printers in the separate stylesheets or in the shared one using media queries:
@media print {
/* Your styles here */
}