Cleanup web pages before printing in Safari
Sep 17, '10 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: solitario
Safari 5 introduced the Safari Reader to allow for great reading and printing of web pages by removing a lot of the clutter you wouldn't want to have in the printed copy. Unfortunately, Safari Reader is not available on all pages, but only those it recognizes as 'articles.' [crarko adds: And Readability is still available for other browsers.]
This hint shows you how you can get rid of those items and save a clean version on pages where Reader is not an option.
For this hint you need to have the Development options active. In Safari 5's Preferences go to the Advanced setting and click 'Show Develop menu in menu bar.'
- For each of the elements that you want to remove right-click on the element and select 'Inspect Element.'
- The Inspector window will open and highlight the element.
- If you hover over other HTML code the page will highlight the elements that are contained in that code.
- Note that elements may be nested in the Inspector window, and you may have to drill down by using 'Open Element' to get to the item you want to delete.
- Once you have found the exact part of the page that you want to remove right click on it and select 'Delete Node' to delete it.
[crarko adds: I tested this on a simple page, and it worked. I can see this getting really tedious on complex pages, but if Reader is not available this is an option if you really don't want the extra stuff around when printing.]
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