Firefox Print CSS Guide Covers Page Breaks, Table Headers and DevTools Preview

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A DEV Community article offers developers a walkthrough of print stylesheets in Firefox. It explains how to emulate print media in DevTools and how to preview output using Ctrl+P. The piece covers @media print rules, such as hiding navigation elements and controlling page breaks with modern break properties. It also addresses print-specific details for tables, code blocks, and page margins, and notes that background colors typically do not print by default.

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