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How to print HTML in landscape?

This question has been asked, and answered, but the heavily upvoted accepted answer both:

  • doesn't explain how to do it
  • does not work

The reason, of course, is that the accepted answer1 is deprecated2. And the W3C has not come up with any standard replacement. Which leaves me with a problem, as I have actual things that need to get done.

How to tell browsers to print content in landscape?

Example that doesn't work

I threw together an example that contains every snippet of chewing gum that i could find.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<HEAD>
<STYLE type="text/css">

/* https://stackoverflow.com/a/1392794/12597 */
@page
{
size: landscape;
}

/* http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/32962 */
@media print{
@page {
	size: landscape
}
}

/* https://stackoverflow.com/a/16655216/12597 */
@media print{
.class-name{
    @page{
        size:landscape;
    }
}
}
</STYLE>

<!--https://stackoverflow.com/a/13684191/12597 -->
<STYLE type="text/css" media="print">
  @page { size: landscape; }
</STYLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
Hello, landscape.
</BODY>

</HTML>

Can anyone come up with something that does work?

Assume Chrome, IE11 or Edge.

Background

The reason i'm doing this, of course, is that i need to print landscape. In my particular case i will be using the rich markup and layout services available in HTML to print on an 8.5x11" piece of tri-perforated paper:

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I want to go down the strips vertically, except that means having to have the text, images, and layout, be horizontal on the page:

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Bonus Reading

  • Landscape printing from HTML
  • How can I define a CSS class to set the printed page in landscape mode?
  • Print in Landscape format
  • W3C CSS Print Profile
  • Printing an HTML Page in Landscape Mode
  • Is @Page { size:landscape} obsolete?
  • CSS Paged Media Module Level 3
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Ian Boyd Avatar asked Aug 12 '15 15:08

Ian Boyd


1 Answers

Kind of hacky and I only tested on CHrome ... inspired by Different page orientation for printing HTML

As I noted in the comments above, for a one page solution this would probably work out for you. You can adjust some of the sizes and such.

<html>

<head>
  <style type="text/css">
    h3 {
      text-align: center;
    }
    .receipt {
      height: 8.5in;
      width: 33%;
      float: left;
      border: 1px solid black;
    }
    .output {
      height;
      8.5in;
      width: 11in;
      border: 1px solid red;
      position: absolute;
      top: 0px;
      left: 0px;
    }
    @media print {
      .output {
        -ms-transform: rotate(270deg);
        /* IE 9 */
        -webkit-transform: rotate(270deg);
        /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
        transform: rotate(270deg);
        top: 1.5in;
        left: -1in;
      }
    }
  </style>

</head>

<body>
  <div class="output">
    <div class="receipt">
      <h3>Cashier</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="receipt">
      <h3>Customer</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="receipt">
      <h3>File</h3>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>

</html>

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Kevin Brown Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 00:10

Kevin Brown