Coloring a Table's TR and TD for Printouts

[jp2aaon]

I have a nice table I built in HTML at the request of our HR department.

They want the report titles to be color coordinated, which I was able to do easily by including this information in either TR or TD sections and spedifying their color using a css file. However, whenever they print out the report to sent it along, the colors do not show up.

I could tell them they have to set their browsers every time to print backgrounds, then change the settings back whenever they get finished, but that seems like a failure on the developer's part (that's me).

Philipp Lenssen on TheScripts.com mentioned writing a custom style sheet, but failed to say how this would be done - and that was 2-1/2 years ago!

Could someone help me modify my css file to include a print section that will allow my TR and TD background-colors to print?

I have started with this:

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@media print
{
  #content
  {
    width:90%;
    font-size:10pt;
  }
  #footer
  {
    display:none;
  }
}

But I don't know what to write in it for the rows and details of my tables.

Thanks very much in advance if you do!

[dflynn]

http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/200001.html try this site here.
Cheers

[jp2aaon]

Didn't work. Oh well.