Printing and Style Sheets

Printing Pages

Users of browsers below version 3, Lynx, IE5, Opera 4 and Navigator 6 beta, will get a specially formatted version of the site when it is printed off. This is because of the use of a 'print' style sheet which works with these browsers (or in the case of earlier browsers, it is entirely ignored).

If you are using Navigator 4 or IE 3, go here for a plain-text version of the site. These browsers are non-compliant with the printing standard.

Cascading Style Sheets: why use them?

This site has been constructed using style sheets.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a type of template which greatly simplifies the chore of marking up a web page. It has not used tables or frames.

The World Wide Web consortium - the people behind the development of technical standards for the web - have been great advocates of using CSS for consistency in presentation and interoperability between browsers. Consistent adherence to standards also allows users with disabilities to use adaptive tools (such as text-to-speech readers for vision impaired people, to their best advantage).

CSS are best supported by IE4/5 and Navigator 4+ (but not for printing, as explained above). Opera browser is also excellent, particularly for people with sight or physical disabilities.

Versions 1, 2 3 of browsers won't display the styled formatting, but no content will be lost.

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