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[Suggestion]: Documentation should be printable

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Description

Summary

Currently, the React documentation cannot be printed. Please add features for the documentation to be printable.

Details

I prefer reading documentation offline.

I'd like to add annotations. I want to read documentation from a book, not online.

This way of learning supports nature sustainment, is less energy draining and allows for better concentration.

The React documentation has come to a state where it is stable for the most part.

In the past, I successfully printed loads of online documentation and had some of them even be bound:

my books

Current Situation

Currently, printing the React documentation is not possible:

cannot print React documentation


Desired Situation

  1. Add CSS rules providing for reasonably printing the React documentation

  2. Add a "Download PDF" button to the documentation's left menu for printing a whole chapter/topic spanning several web pages as a whole (e.g. "Describing the UI"), like Microsoft does with their online documentation:

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the React documentation site's styling and left-menu entry point, focusing on how print output and chapter navigation currently work. Done means the documentation prints reasonably and a left-menu Download PDF option can produce a whole chapter or topic spanning multiple pages.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
css, javascript, react
Domain
documentation, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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