Using Selenium to Determining The Visibility of Elements for Print media

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Published on 2014-06-02T02:40:56Z Indexed on 2014/06/10 15:24 UTC
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I would like to determine if particular elements on a page are visible when printed as controlled by CSS @media rules.

Is there a way to do this with Selenium?

I know there is the isDisplayed method, which takes the CSS into account, but there is nothing I can find to tell Selenium which media type to apply.

Is there a way to do this?

Or is there another way to test web pages to make sure the elements you want are printed (and those you don't aren't)?

Update:

For clarity, there are no plans to have a javascript print button. The users will print using the normal print functionality of the browser (Chrome, FF and IE). @media css rules will be used to control what is shown and hidden. I would like Selenium to pretend it is a printer instead of a screen, so I can test if certain elements will be visible in what would be the printed version of the page.

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