well, if you want to be safe to think that your page is compatible with
all used browsers then you shouldn't force print. IE on mac doesn't
support window.print();
you could just show the page and let them print it.
otherwise i'd say the iframe is your best bet ;)
-Jaimz
Jim Geurts wrote:
Sorry about that. I want to print a separate page when the user
clicks a button/span, without navigating the user to that page.
On 5/9/06, *Jaimz* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[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 = 'someprintpage.html';
> }
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <span onclick="PrintAPage()">Print 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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> http://biacreations.com
> 410-493-9385
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