Hey people... I posted this to a DOM mail list i'm on, and it was suggested i post here. The person who responded says this is likely a bug that might be logged to Bugzilla (?).
> Hi List: > > Trying to do a printer friendly version of a page, but without the user > having to load the printer friendly page separately. > > I am currently loading it into an iframe with attributes height and width > set to 0. The print function is as follows: > > parent.pfPage.focus(); > window.frames.pfPage.print(); > > (where pfPage is the name of the iframe). > > This works peachy in IE 5.5. In NS7 (haven't tested NS6, but i'm assuming > similar behaviour), I'm running into issues. > > At first, it was printing the parent frame (while IE was correctly printing > the document in the iframe). > > Now, I get a NS popup that says 'printing'...and it shows the URL (which is > the correct url to the source of the iframe)...but it hangs in my spool > forever and never prints. I end up having to delete the print job and > close the NS window to remove it from the printer dialog box (the browser > itself doesn't lock up or anything). > > So, i seem to be referencing the iframe correctly...this problem seems to > be more 'under the hood' than code-based. > > The page in question can be seen at > http://130.13.124.245:6699/lincolnlaser/articles/article.cfm?article=10 > > Any insight would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thx, Charlie
