Printing web page without headers or footers

[Edward Diener]

How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer
it adds to the page ? The header usually has "Firefox" in the upper left
hand corner, the web url in the upper right hand corner, the page number
of total pages in the lower left hand corner, and the date/time in the
lower right hand corner. I want to eliminate all that when printing
certain web pages.

[Andy Burns]

Edward Diener wrote:

> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer
> it adds to the page ?

under "print..." more settings, you should have a tick box for
headers/footers ...

[Cecil Westerhof]

Edward Diener <eddielee_n...@tropicsoft.com> writes:

> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer

> it adds to the page ? The header usually has "Firefox" in the upper left
> hand corner, the web url in the upper right hand corner, the page number
> of total pages in the lower left hand corner, and the date/time in the
> lower right hand corner. I want to eliminate all that when printing
> certain web pages.

It seems that Mozilla removed the option. In the past it could be done
with print -> page setup, but that does not work anymore. :'-(

--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

[Andy Burns]

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> Edward Diener wrote:
>
>> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer
>> it adds to the page ?
>

> It seems that Mozilla removed the option. In the past it could be done
> with print -> page setup, but that does not work anymore. :'-(

Still ok for me ...

<http://andyburns.uk/misc/firefox-print-options.png>

are you using "system print dialog"?

[Cecil Westerhof]

Cecil Westerhof via support-firefox
<support...@lists.mozilla.org> writes:

> Edward Diener <eddielee_n...@tropicsoft.com> writes:
>
>> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer

>> it adds to the page ? The header usually has "Firefox" in the upper left
>> hand corner, the web url in the upper right hand corner, the page number
>> of total pages in the lower left hand corner, and the date/time in the
>> lower right hand corner. I want to eliminate all that when printing
>> certain web pages.
>

> It seems that Mozilla removed the option. In the past it could be done
> with print -> page setup, but that does not work anymore. :'-(

No, my bad, they changed the interface. (Very long ago that I changed
it.)

Print -> Options

[R.Wieser]

Edward,

> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer it
> adds to the page ?

In my version of FF (v52) I can change such things under toolbar ->
"file" -> "page setup" -> (tab) "Margins & Header/Footer".

If you can't find that you could also go into "about:config", type
"printer." in the search box and see what you get. In my case I see a
number of entries ending with ".print_footerxxxx" and ".print_headerxxxx" (a
set for each installed printer), containing stuff like "&PT", "&D", "&T" and
"&U". I could imagine that when you remove those that the accociated
position on the printed page will empty too.

Don't forget to write down whats in there somewhere first though (so you can
restore it when needed). :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

[Edward Diener]

On 2/7/2021 6:55 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Edward Diener <eddielee_n...@tropicsoft.com> writes:
>
>> How do I tell Firefox to print a web page without the header and footer
>> it adds to the page ? The header usually has "Firefox" in the upper left
>> hand corner, the web url in the upper right hand corner, the page number
>> of total pages in the lower left hand corner, and the date/time in the
>> lower right hand corner. I want to eliminate all that when printing
>> certain web pages.
>
> It seems that Mozilla removed the option. In the past it could be done
> with print -> page setup, but that does not work anymore. :'-(

File | Page Setup... has a Margins & Header / Footer tab which I found.
Thanks !