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Flow: show less chrome for Print version of a Flow board
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Visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sandbox and in the left-hand nav click "Printable version"

The page chrome goes away, but all the bits of HTML for

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etc. still appear. These should not display, in the same way that [ edit | edit source] markers don't appear in regular articles when in printable mode. I *think* simply adding the (sadly undocumented?) class="noprint" to these will do the right thing, and/or we could add
'modules/base/styles/printable.css' => array( 'media' => 'print' ),
with finer control as https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113169 does it.

(We should also add user-select: none to bits of HTML like "Small view Collapsed view Full view" and "( talk | block )" that appear when you copy and paste a Flow page. I'll file a separate bug.)

Screenshot 2020-08-06 at 14.53.18.png (2×3 px, 1 MB)


Version: master
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:52 AM
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I can see the use-case for articles, but who on earth is going to be printing out Flow discussions? ;)

(In reply to Maryana Pinchuk from comment #1)

I can see the use-case for articles, but who on earth is going to be
printing out Flow discussions? ;)

People like this: "By the way, when I decide to read many sections of a long article (or talk page), I usually print it out and read it on the bus on my way to work." - https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Typography_refresh&diff=906576&oldid=906560

Printable version is deprecated as of T167956

TheDJ renamed this task from Flow: show less chrome for Printable version of a Flow board to Flow: show less chrome for Print version of a Flow board.Aug 6 2020, 12:54 PM
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Not specific to printable version, print in general.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM
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