html - How can I print background images in FF or IE?

Question

Is there any way to set ff and ie to print background images?

I am using stars image to classify some skills and I set it as a background image and positioning to either set one start, two, three, etc. When I try to print the page the images disappear.

So is there any way to make them appear when I print the page or at least have a way of replacing the images with * or something that would be visible?

Answer 1

Have you considered using a print stylesheet? This could allow you to do something like:

<div class="star">*</div>

/* media:screen */
.star {
    background: ...;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-indent: 9999em;
}

/* media:print */
.star {
    text-indent: 0;
}

or even easier:

<div class="star"><img src="./images/star.jpg" alt="*" /></div>

/* media:screen */
.star img {
    visibility: hidden;
}

/* media:print */
.star img {
    visibility: visible;
}

You can specify stylesheets browsers should use by supplying a media tag, either by css or on the link element:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="print stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print" />