On 5/9/06, Jaimz <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'm kinda lost about what your trying to accomplish, if your trying to
print a page's content in a printer friendly form you can use CSS for that.
-Jaimz
Jim Geurts wrote:
> Does anyone know of a cross browser solution to print a page/url after
> a user clicks a button?
>
> Currently, I'm using a "hidden" iframe to do my bidding. But from my
> experience, IE requires that the iframe's src attribute be set
> initially to the url, in order for the page to open properly. I
> wasn't able to add the iframe to the page dynamically, either.
>
> So this doesn't work with IE, but it does with Firefox:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <script language="_javascript_" type="text/_javascript_">
> function PrintAPage() {
> $('printer').src = '';
> }
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <span a page</span>
>
> <iframe id="printer" height="1" width="1" ></iframe>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> _______________
>
> As a side point, someprintpage.html would have this bit of code on it:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <script language="_javascript_" type="text/_javascript_">
> window.focus();
> window.print();
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> ...
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Jim
>
>
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