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using javascript create printer-friendly pages.

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using javascript create printer-friendly pages,Writing the content directly into the popup windows. Using this script the pop up window can be created which holds the data that has to be printed.

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Introduction

create printer-friendly pages,Writing the content directly into the popup windows.

Using this script the pop up window can be created which holds the data that has to be printed.


 It generates a new page using only content defined between div elements.

 <div class="style3" id="print_content">   </div>

Everything else is ignored.

 

The new page is called with following scripts


<a href="javascript:PrintThisPage()">Cick here to print</a>

With JavaScript we can specify  properties of the window such as width, height, presence or absence of scrollbars, location bar, stauts bar etc.


Properties like

<P>toolbar=0|1   Specifies whether to display the toolbar in the new window.  
<P>location=0|1   Specifies whether to display the address line in the new window.  
<P>directories=0|1 Specifies whether to display the Netscape directory buttons.  
<P>status=0|1   Specifies whether to display the browser status bar.  
<P>menubar=0|1   Specifies whether to display the browser menu bar.  
<P>scrollbars=0|1  Specifies whether the new window should have scrollbars.  
<P>resizable=0|1   Specifies whether the new window is resizable.  
<P>width=pixels   Specifies the width of the new window.  
<P>height=pixels   Specifies the height of the new window.  
<P>top=pixels   Specifies the Y coordinate of the top left corner of the new window. (Not   supported in version 3 browsers.)  
<P>left=pixels   Specifies the X coordinate of the top left corner of the new window. (Not   supported in version 3 browsers.)  </P>


 </P>
<P><CODE>var  disp_setting="toolbar=yes,location=no,directories=yes,menubar=yes,";<BR>
 disp_setting+="scrollbars=yes,width=650, height=600, left=100, top=25"; <BR>

 

Using  innerhtml property to READ the content  between the DIV and /DIV tags.

var content_vlue = document.getElementById("print_content").innerHTML;


The window.open() method opens a new browser window

we must create a new window and store a reference to it in a variable

var docprint=window.open("","",disp_setting); <BR>

every window contains a document. We use  docprint.document.write method to write the content to newwindow.
 

 

onLoad attribute inside BODY element executes (javascript onLoad="self.print() )
function and disply the print screen.

docprint.document.write('</head><body onLoad="self.print()"><center>');

docprint.document.close(); <BR><BR>at the end is something different than a window.close(), it kind of means that the document inside the popup is closed for writing.we must close the document ourselves. If we didn't close the document, the computer would still be waiting for more HTML, and indeed would parse the next input as HTML, which would generally produce an error.
<CODE><BR>docprint.focus(); 

It means the focus is on the new pop up window .

 

Complete  Source Code:
======================
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd</A>">
<html xmlns="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</A>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Clinet side printer version</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {color: #0033FF}
.style3 {
 font-size: 12px;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
-->
</style>
</head> 
<script language="javascript">
function Clickheretoprint()
{ 
  var disp_setting="toolbar=yes,location=no,directories=yes,menubar=yes,"; 
      disp_setting+="scrollbars=yes,width=650, height=600, left=100, top=25"; 
  var content_vlue = document.getElementById("print_content").innerHTML; 
  
  var docprint=window.open("","",disp_setting); 
   docprint.document.open(); 
   docprint.document.write('<html><head><title>Inel Power System</title>'); 
   docprint.document.write('</head><body onLoad="self.print()"><center>');          
   docprint.document.write(content_vlue);          
   docprint.document.write('</center></body></html>'); 
   docprint.document.close(); 
   docprint.focus(); 
}
</script>
<body bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCCCFF"><h2 align="center" class="style1">Site Header Name </h2></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="16%" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCCCFF"> <table width="62%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 
cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td><a href="#">Link1</a></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><a href="#">Link2</a></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><a href="#">Link3</a></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
    <td width="84%">
    <div align="right"><a href="javascript:Clickheretoprint()"> Click here to print</a>    </div>
    <div class="style3" id="print_content">Content for  id "print_content" Goes Here
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
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        </tr>
      </table>
    </div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCCCFF"><span class="style3">footer</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

 

 

 

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