I remember a time when there used to be a print function on webpages so you could print the content without all the crap.

That seems to be gone these days (webpage owners want ads to be printed?). Is there a way around this -- printing the content without all the crap?

For example, I wanted to print this page re: knee pain after cycling. But when I try to use the browser print function, it wants to print all the crap as well.

https://www.bicycling.com/trai...hy-do-my-knees-hurt#

Short answer - not really.

Are you using an adblocker - won't remove all the junk, just most of it.

If you have firefox/pale moon, you could get Page Saver add-on and save the whole page as a png/jpg & then use a screen cap tool to cut & paste into Word/word processor.

I was not able to print the article clean, but I was able to copy the text without the ads and paste it into a word document, which I could then print.

If you can't do this, I will be happy to email the article to you as a file attachment.

Does your browser offer a "Reader View?"

The only browser I use is Safari, on Mac, which does offer this in a drop-down menu. I don't know whether that option is specific to Safari / Mac, or if it's found in other browsers.

This view does remove all the garbage.

You can make a User Style Sheet with the items you don't want marked as "display: none;". Which browser are you running?

Thanks guys.

Okay - sounds like webpages are more ad friendly than consumer friendly these days. Figures.

Artie - thanks for the offer. I can do this; it's just tedious and not a great long term solution (if I want to printout multiple articles on a topic, for example.

I'm using Chrome on PC and phone. I can try Reader View on Safari on the phone.

Safari on phone with Reader View might work -- if the page ever stops loading (ads?). Thanks for that tip. Be nice if I could do it from the PC but phone will work on occasion.

The Reader view in Safari is also available if there are 3 1/2 lines in the left of the address in the browser. Click on those lines & Safari switches to Reader View.

This website does a pretty good job of removing ads, navigation and web page junk. No login in or anything required.
https://www.printfriendly.com/

I use "Print Friendly & PDF" extension for chrome. It works quite well, it even allows you to edit what will and will not print.

Doh! Mikey beat me to it.

can you copy to Word and delete the undesirable information?

Convert to PDF and then print the pages you want:
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/