Print incorrect form structure

Hello @khuongdaowp

As I said in the other ticket:

Printing a page, the browsers apply the styles defined into the media blocks:

@media print
{
}

If you check the css files loaded by your website (in particular the bootstrap.css), you will see they are modifying the appearance of pages when it is being printed. For example:

@media print {
  * {
    color: #000 !important;
    text-shadow: none !important;
    background: transparent !important;
    box-shadow: none !important;
  }
  a,
  a:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
  }
  a[href]:after {
    content: " (" attr(href) ")";
  }
  abbr[title]:after {
    content: " (" attr(title) ")";
  }
  a[href^="javascript:"]:after,
  a[href^="#"]:after {
    content: "";
  }
  pre,
  blockquote {
    border: 1px solid #999;

    page-break-inside: avoid;
  }
  thead {
    display: table-header-group;
  }
  tr,
  img {
    page-break-inside: avoid;
  }
  img {
    max-width: 100% !important;
  }
  p,
  h2,
  h3 {
    orphans: 3;
    widows: 3;
  }
  h2,
  h3 {
    page-break-after: avoid;
  }
  select {
    background: #fff !important;
  }
  .navbar {
    display: none;
  }
  .table td,
  .table th {
    background-color: #fff !important;
  }
  .btn > .caret,
  .dropup > .btn > .caret {
    border-top-color: #000 !important;
  }
  .label {
    border: 1px solid #000;
  }
  .table {
    border-collapse: collapse !important;
  }
  .table-bordered th,
  .table-bordered td {
    border: 1px solid #ddd !important;
  }
}

as you can see the rules were defined as !important; to take precedence over the rest (this piece of code belongs to the bootstrap.css file).

Best regards.

So what should I do to print correctly with the form, I just need to structure it properly with the template. My template is now skewed to the left and I don’t know how to fix it.

Hope you will help me!

Hello @khuongdaowp

The printForm routine is included in your form (into a “HTML Content” field), so, you are free to edit it.

For example, you know now that the bootstrap.css file is modifying the appearance of form when it is printed. So, in the printForm block of code, you can edit the piece of code:

function _getStyles(){var r='';$(document).find('link[type*="css"],style').each(function(){r+=this.outerHTML;});return r;};

as follows:

function _getStyles(){var r='';$(document).find('link[type*="css"],style').each(function(){var f = $(this).attr('href'); if(typeof f != 'undefined' && /bootstrap/i.test(f)) return; r+=this.outerHTML;});return r;};

The rest of code into the printForm routine remains without modifications.

If you need additional support customizing the form, you can request a custom coding service, through my private website:

https://cff.dwbooster.com/customization

Best regards.

@codepeople I’m closing this topic because you’ve added a mention about soliciting for paid work.

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https://cff.dwbooster.com/customization

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