In the world of print stylesheets, there’s long been a fairly well-established technique for expanding link URLs inline in body text, and printing them inline. The result works, but it breaks the reading flow of the text. A better solution has been around for at least a century in typesetting: the footnote. The challenge is creating and inserting the footnotes, which must be done with JavaScript.
This short tutorial will show how to capture print events with JavaScript and insert dynamic content exclusively for printers, while being invisible in the browser window.
