If I want to print a page such as an item or monster stat page, the comment section of said page is always printed, including the big white box to write comment. Often this causes my printouts to be on two pages instead of one. Of course now I know it so I just say I want one page printed, but it'd be nice if I didn't need to be so careful in order not to waste my ink and paper.
So, could you remove the comment section from the print layout?
Usually it's only a bit of CSS to add, but of course I don't know your work, and this might be presumptuous.
@DxJxC I know what I could do. I have my own CSS rule that gets rid of that section. The problem isn't what I can do, but what is offered by default. By default the comments, and even less the comment form, shouldn't be printed out.
@DxJxC I know what I could do. I have my own CSS rule that gets rid of that section. The problem isn't what I can do, but what is offered by default. By default the comments, and even less the comment form, shouldn't be printed out.
DDB offers printable character sheets and that is it. Being able to print individual spells is not a service of DDB, it is a feature of your browser. So you are asking DDB to fix your browser's print page feature.
What you should be asking for is for exporting/printing individual spells to be supported.
I don't mean to offend you, but you're wrong. So I'm gonna be nice and try to educate you on that topic.
Part of designing a web page is to design which element you see and which you don't, in your desktop browser, in your mobile browser but also... when you print it, yes.
When you look at this very page, you see a lot of information such as the navigation or a search bar or elements that allow you to access your account. If you were to print them exactly as is, you would definitely see them as is on your page. However, those elements are absent when printing. So the D&D Beyond team *already* has made some improvements to the print-version than what you think it did.
Given this, I'm only asking that they extend the courtesy of removing stuff at print-time to sections such as comments.
That's not bespoke CSS but a standard frame, it's the same for websites such as twitter or reddit. If you print those sites you get everything below the header, including text entry fields. Sure, they could go through the site and modify the CSS to put adaptive formatting to put a print cutoff footer before every comment section, but considering this site is very much not designed to be a print resource, there's little RoI on that. In fact, adding features to make anything other than the character sheet easier to print out might likely be a violation of their license agreement.
Also, saying things like
I'm gonna be nice and try to educate you on that topic
Is incredibly condescending. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but just a heads up.
If I want to print a page such as an item or monster stat page, the comment section of said page is always printed, including the big white box to write comment. Often this causes my printouts to be on two pages instead of one. Of course now I know it so I just say I want one page printed, but it'd be nice if I didn't need to be so careful in order not to waste my ink and paper.
So, could you remove the comment section from the print layout?
Usually it's only a bit of CSS to add, but of course I don't know your work, and this might be presumptuous.
You could probably do a print preview or save and edit the page first to only get what you want.
@DxJxC I know what I could do. I have my own CSS rule that gets rid of that section. The problem isn't what I can do, but what is offered by default. By default the comments, and even less the comment form, shouldn't be printed out.
I'm pretty sure printing a webpage offers everything on the page. What you're talking about is a specific printer friendly version?
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DDB offers printable character sheets and that is it. Being able to print individual spells is not a service of DDB, it is a feature of your browser. So you are asking DDB to fix your browser's print page feature.
What you should be asking for is for exporting/printing individual spells to be supported.
I don't mean to offend you, but you're wrong. So I'm gonna be nice and try to educate you on that topic.
Part of designing a web page is to design which element you see and which you don't, in your desktop browser, in your mobile browser but also... when you print it, yes.
When you look at this very page, you see a lot of information such as the navigation or a search bar or elements that allow you to access your account. If you were to print them exactly as is, you would definitely see them as is on your page. However, those elements are absent when printing. So the D&D Beyond team *already* has made some improvements to the print-version than what you think it did.
Given this, I'm only asking that they extend the courtesy of removing stuff at print-time to sections such as comments.
That's not bespoke CSS but a standard frame, it's the same for websites such as twitter or reddit. If you print those sites you get everything below the header, including text entry fields. Sure, they could go through the site and modify the CSS to put adaptive formatting to put a print cutoff footer before every comment section, but considering this site is very much not designed to be a print resource, there's little RoI on that. In fact, adding features to make anything other than the character sheet easier to print out might likely be a violation of their license agreement.
Also, saying things like
Is incredibly condescending. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but just a heads up.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here