tr95 - 9:46 pm on Dec 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

Following advice I found on another webmaster support site, I just added a "print" stylesheet. When the page is printed, the print stylesheet takes over and removes unneeded material, such as navigation links, and adds the URL of the page at the bottom so that the user will be able to find it again.

I did this by using { display: none } in the print stylesheet for navigation class codes and in the regular stylesheet for the class code of the page URL. Every page has two <link rel> lines in the header in the form:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.nnn.com/stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.nnn.com/printstylesheet.css" media="print" type="text/css">

I'm pleased with the way it works but concerned that it might confuse Google. I had assumed that there would be no problem with Google or other search engines, but in light of the messages above, I wonder if Google might assume that the site is hiding text because the regular stylesheet hides the page's own URL.