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kaushiks
post 4 Jul, 2006 - 02:23 AM
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hi,

I am new to html, so there are some basic things that i dont know.

Is there any code in html to print a page?
If we want to print a specific area and not the whole page how is it written in html?

Please guide me through this, coz i am a little confused in this printing functionality


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post 4 Jul, 2006 - 04:25 AM
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I assume that you mean print like in print with a printer. You're going out of HTML here, as HTML's only job is to render. To print a page, you would have to use Javascipt window.print(). To trigger this you would of couse have to put an a tag around it like so <a href="window.print()"> or an onclick or something of the kind. Since javascript is kind of hierarchical, i guess that you could also put window.form.print() is you want to print a form window.iframe.print() to print an iframe. Go ahead and learn a little javascript at http://www.w3schools.com/
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post 4 Jul, 2006 - 04:26 AM
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There is no way to use HTML to send data to a printer, I'm afraid...you'll need a scripting language to do that.

[edit]Whoops...me and max were replying at the same time...max was quicker! smile.gif[/edit]

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There is no way to use HTML to send data to a printer, I'm afraid...you'll need a scripting language to do that.

[edit]Whoops...me and max were replying at the same time...max was quicker! smile.gif[/edit]


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QUOTE(max302 @ 4 Jul, 2006 - 04:46 AM) *

QUOTE(Amadeus @ 4 Jul, 2006 - 04:18 AM) *

There is no way to use HTML to send data to a printer, I'm afraid...you'll need a scripting language to do that.

[edit]Whoops...me and max were replying at the same time...max was quicker! smile.gif[/edit]


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guys what u r saying is alright, but how can we determine the area of page to print. For example top half of my web page has got banner on it, so i dont need to print that. say use window.form.print will print the form area.
What if i have got some tables to be printed ??

please enlighten me


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post 5 Jul, 2006 - 02:48 AM
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<style type="text/css">
  @import "print.css" print;
  @media print {
    #banner {
      display: none;
      }
    }
</style>
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<style type="text/css">
  @import "print.css" print;
  @media print {
    #banner {
      display: none;
      }
    }
</style>



CSS does that? Wow... Another reason why CSS owns all.

But if you want to stay with javascript, learn how a page is heirarchically divided in JS and from there, you should find a solution to your problem, young padawan.
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