bulma-print

Extends the Bulma CSS framework with additional classes and styles suitable for printing.

As with Bulma, you can either use the pre-compiled .css file or install the .sass files from the NPM package.

Using a CDN (without installation)

Import the CSS file directly from jsDelivr, just after Bulma:

<!--index.html-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/css/bulma.min.css"><!--the Bulma CSS-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/css/bulma-print.css"><!--add bulma-print.css-->

Installing from NPM

npm install bulma-print --save-dev

or

yarn add bulma-print --dev

Now you can either either use the pre-compiled bulma-print.css file:

<!--index.html-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"><!--the Bulma CSS-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./node_modules/bulma-print/css/bulma-print.css"><!--add bulma-print.css-->

or

include the bulma-print.scss file into your Sass chain:

//main.scss
@import "../node_modules/bulma/bulma"; //the bulma.scss
@import "../node_modules/bulma-print/bulma-print"; //add bulma-print.scss

Your Sass compiler will then process bulma-print.scss alongside your project's other Sass files into the CSS file, from where you can use it.

How to use

To arrange the print layout of your pages, you can add the following classes to your HTML:

Add on class	Description
is-hidden-print	Hides the element on the printed page
is-print-only	Hides the element on non-print media
is-not-linked-print	Suppresses the (added by default) printout of the hyperlink URL
has-page-break-after	Adds a page break after the element
has-page-break-before	Adds a page break before the element
is-together-print	Avoids page breaks inside the element

The class names follow the naming pattern from the visibility helpers, as per the Bulma documentation.

Examples

Not printing the navbar

    <nav id="navbar" class="bd-navbar navbar is-hidden-print">
    <!-- navbar content... -->
    </nav>

Adding a special information, only for printouts

    <section class="hero is-print-only">
        <!-- About this printed document... -->
    </section>

Adding a page break before a header

    <h3 class="has-page-break-before">Try it out!</h3>

Further considerations

Printed links

Bulma-print will by default add the hyperlink URL (href) after any a (anchor) element. Otherwise, hyperlinks are not usable from print media. If you do not like this for a link, you can suppress this via the specific marker class is-not-linked-print.

Page breaks

Print media has the additional concept of pages. The page breaks can be controlled and specifically set, for example you can add has-page-break-before on h1 elements, to add a page break beforehand, to produce a more expected layout on print media. Also, for enumerations like lists or with tables, you might want to keep these on the same page, and can thus use is-together-print on the outermost element, like ul or table.

Responsive size

For printing, Bulma by default uses the layout styles as for their "tablet" screen size. See the Bulma breakpoint documentation. This package does not change this.

Automatic color adjustments

Any browser may try to optimize the printed colors as it sees fit, and most browsers do. See the documentation about the print-color-adjust CSS property for more information. Bulma-print does not change this value. You may want to add your custom styles to produce the exact output you like.

What's included

This package contains:

• a main Scss file, bulma-print.scss which includes the styles for the above classes.
• Additional, experimental styles in the experimental folder. Use with caution.
• a pre-compiled .css file, if you do not want to build from .scss

Build

Use npm run to show all available commands:

  css-deploy
    npm run css-build && npm run css-postcss
  css-build
    sass --no-source-map bulma-print.scss:css/bulma-print.css
  css-postcss
    postcss --use autoprefixer --output css/bulma-print.css css/bulma-print.css

  //Build continuously
  css-watch
    npm run css-build -- --watch    

About Bulma-print

Currently, Bulma is missing print-specific styling. It has been reported as jgthms/bulma#721, and until it's implemented, this package may serve as a stand-in.

About Bulma

If you want to learn more about Bulma, follow these links: Bulma homepage and Documentation.

Copyright and license

Code copyright by Marcel Suter. Code released under the MIT license.