How can I force browsers to print background image

Question

This question was asked before but the solution is not applicable in my case. I want to make sure certain background images are printed because they are integral to the page. (They are not images directly in the page because there are several of them being used as CSS sprites.)

Another solution on that same question suggests using list-style-image, which only works if you have a different image for every icon, no CSS sprites possible.

Aside from creating a separate page with the icons inline, is there another solution?

Answer 1

it is working in google chrome when you add !important attribute to background image make sure you add attribute first and try again, you can do it like that

    .inputbg {
background: url('inputbg.png') !important;  

}

Answer 2

Browsers, by default, have their option to print background-colors and images turned off. You can add some lines in CSS to bypass this. Just add:

* {
    -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important;   /* Chrome, Safari */
    color-adjust: exact !important;                 /*Firefox*/
}

Answer 3

Like @ckpepper02 said, the body content:url option works well. I found however that if you modify it slightly you can just use it to add a header image of sorts using the :before pseudo element as follows.

@media print {
  body:before { content: url(img/printlogo.png);}
}

That will slip the image at the top of the page, and from my limited testing, it works in Chrome and the IE9

-hanz

Answer 4

You have very little control over a browser's printing methods. At most you can SUGGEST, but if the browser's print settings have "don't print background images", there's nothing you can do without rewriting your page to turn the background images into floating "foreground" images that happen to be behind other content.

Answer 5

You can use borders for fixed colors.

 borderTop: solid 15px black;

and for gradient background you can use:

    box-sizing: border-box;
    border-style: solid;
    border-top: 0px;
    border-left: 0px;
    border-right: 0px;
    border-image: linear-gradient(to right, red, blue) 100%;
    border-image-slice: 1;
    border-width: 18px;

Answer 6

You can do some tricks like that:

<style>
    @page {
        size: 21cm 29.7cm;
        size: landscape
        /*margin: 30mm 45mm 30mm 45mm;*/

    }
    .whater{
        opacity: 0.05;
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        position: absolute;
        z-index: 9999;
    }
</style>

In body tag:

<img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" class="whater"/>