XHTML-Print Attributes, an annotated list

The following table lists all the attributes in XHTML-Print and notes which are not meaningful, that is, result in a visible change to the page :
  1. when printing a static version of the XHTML-Print document,
  2. because of restrictions of image types to jpeg,
  3. because only css style sheets are supported, not java style sheets,
  4. because the the character set of XHTML-Print documents is restricuted to utf-8, and
  5. because they are part of functionality that is considered too complex for low-cost printers.
The last point is important to us, since we hope that every printer could proved support for XHTML-print to at least the minimum degree of print quality. The absolute minimum level of print quality is simply printing the document's text without images.
AttributeElementsSupportNote
maxlengthinputnodata is not input
actionformnoforms are not submitted
enctypeformnoforms are not submitted
methodformnoforms are not submitted
name"input,select,textarea"noforms are not submitted
srcinputnoimage type not part of basic forms
hrefanolinks are not followed
hreflanganolinks are not followed
relanolinks are not followed
revanolinks are not followed
revlinknolinks are not followed
typeanolinks are not followed
profileheadnono place to print meta data
abbr"td,th"nono place to print value
citeblockquotenono place to print value
contentmetanono place to print value
http-equivmetanono place to print value
longdescimgnono place to print value
nameobjectnono place to print value
namemetanono place to print value
qcitenono place to print value
schememetanono place to print value
summarytablenono place to print value
titlecorenono place to print value
titlestylenono place to print value
headers"td,th"no"no place to print value, no user interface"
scope"td,th"no"no place to print value, no user interface"
accesskey"a,input, label, textarea"nono user interface
axis"td,th"nono user interface
for labelnono user interface
tabindex"a,input,select,textarea,object"nono user interface
typelinkyes"only css supported, java too complex"
archiveobjectno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
classidobjectno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
codebaseobjectno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
codetypeobjectno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
idparamno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
nameparamno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
standbyobjectno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
typeobjectyes"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
typeparamno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
valueparamno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
valuetypeparamno"only jpeg supported, printer cannot print applet output"
rellink"yes, but"only style sheets supported.
typestyle"yes, but ""only type/css, java style sheets too complex"
xmlnshtmlyesrestricted to http://www.w3.org/xhtml
align"td,th,tr""yes, except for justify and char"too complex
declareobject"yes, but could require too much memory"too complex
hreflanglinknotoo complex
multipleselectnotoo complex
valign"td,th,tr""yes, but not defined across pages"too complex
xml:langI18Nnotoo complex
charset"a,link"noutf-8 only
altimgyes
checkedinputyes
classcoreyes
colstextareayes
colspan"td,th"yes
dataobjectyes
heightimgyes
heightobjectyes
hreflinkyes
hrefbaseyes
idcoreyes
mediastyleyes
medialinkyes
rowstextareayes
rowspan"td,th"yes
selectedoptionyes
sizeinputyes
sizeselectyes
srcimgyes
stylestyleyes
typeinputyes
valueinputyes
valueoptionyes
versionhtmlyes
widthtableyes
widthimgyes
widthobjectyes
xml_spacestyleyes