Hi, I am new to struts and using Struts 1.2.9 (old version, but not my decision). I have a view page in jsp set up to display a report I generated on-fly. I have use setRequestAtrribute() to put report ( plain text string with only "\n" line-break) as a attribute in the action and get it from the jsp page and show it in a "textarea". I put it this way for user to copy and paste the content in textarea into a text editor easily.
Now we want to put a print link/button for the report. I have a few questions. 1 Javascript only has "window.print()" which print the whole window. Can it print things only in the textarea? 2 If I cannot, I probably need to pop-up a new window with a print-friendly page and invoke "window.print()" there. Is that the correct way to do? 3. The report generating is expensive and it has a generating time in the report. So I do not wan to generate it again. I wan to pass it into the print-page instead. how can I pass the report from the original page to the pop-up print page? Do I have to change the report into "session" attribute? 4. Since the plain text spring with line-break "\n" will not show up correctly in the browser, I need to change the report and put the format as "<br/>". So I need to have two versions report generated. Is that the good way to go? Or maybe I can generate one xml file and apply different css? I am sorry, the questions are not directly related to struts. But I am not sure whether struts provide some better mechanism to accomplish this. I am new to the server-side programing. Can anyone point a good forum or usenet where I can get some help for subject like these? Thanks. Sincerely Zhu, Guojun --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
