visible print/invisible screen

[Thomas Dowling]

>From: Paul F. Schaffner <pfs at umich.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
>Date: Friday, May 16, 1997 11:44 PM
>Subject: visible print/invisible screen

>I have been asked by some fellow librarians how best to tag
>URLs in a hot-list type of page so that they do *not* appear
>on the screen, but *do* appear when the page is printed (e.g.,
>by a patron to take away and consult later). The best I could
>come up with off the cuff was the old expedient: a <font> tag
>with the color attribute set to the background color (or to the
>color of the background image); then print from Netscape with
>"black text" box checked on the page setup menu. This works after a
>fashion, but only at the risk of encountering display configurations
>and browsers that won't cooperate. I'm sure there must be a neater
>and more elegant approach.... but what is it?

<p>If you would like a copy of this document that includes the
URLs of the cited links, please see <a href="version-with-links.html">
this version</a>.</p>

All other kludgery is destined to A) fail and B) confuse and annoy your
users.  IMO, needless to say.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu