React how to print landscape / portrait for different components

Question

Our React app has ~10 different routes and we'd like for them all to be printable. We're using the css print media query to clean styles up for print, and the frontend has a button that calls window.print() on click.

Amongst the 10 routes, 7 of the pages look better with landscape whereas the other 3 are better as portrait . Currently, @page is only set once, in the app's top-level App.scss file.

App.scss

@page {
  size: portrait;
}

@media print and (orientation: portrait) {
  .table-cols {
      max-width: 50%;
  }

  .my-selects { display: none; }
  .my-print-button { display: none; }
  .my-footer { display: none; }
  ...
}

How (if at all) can the @page { size: portrait } be switched to landscape certain routes, depending on the route? Maybe a landscape class and a portrait class could be made, that each set their own @page value, and then the classes would be used on the elements the routes are returning?

Answer 1

function setPageSize(cssPageSize) {
    const style = document.createElement('style');
    style.innerHTML = `@page {size: ${cssPageSize}}`;
    style.id = 'page-orientation';
    document.head.appendChild(style);
}

function PrintIcon({ teamId, orientation = 'portrait' }) {
    // Set orientation of page being printed
    useEffect(() => {
        setPageSize(orientation);
        return () => {
            const child = document.getElementById('page-orientation');
            child.parentNode.removeChild(child);
        };
    }, [orientation]);

    return (
        <div className='print-button' onClick={() => window.print()}>
            Click to Print
        </div>
    );
}

export default PrintIcon;

the useEffect calls the setPageSize() function which manually adds the @page to the head, and its cleanup function removes the @page ...

Answer 2

<div className="printLayoutContainer">
     <style type="text/css" media="print">
         {" @page { size: portrait; } "}
       </style>
</div>

You can use internal CSS to print landscape or portrait.