open search result in text file

[nehashri]

hello
Can any one please help me in the following.....
I making a database with Access and ASP. I have created a search option where I have a text box and a submit button. the result to this search is displayed in the same page.
all i want is a option where user can choose between printing the results in the same page or in a text file....
the result is in tabular form and i want the format to remain if not table it self (in the asp page the results is presented in html tabular format with borders in the table so i want same thing to occur in text file to if it is possible)

please help
thanks
neha

[jhardman]

hello
Can any one please help me in the following.....
I making a database with Access and ASP. I have created a search option where I have a text box and a submit button. the result to this search is displayed in the same page.
all i want is a option where user can choose between printing the results in the same page or in a text file....
the result is in tabular form and i want the format to remain if not table it self (in the asp page the results is presented in html tabular format with borders in the table so i want same thing to occur in text file to if it is possible)

please help
thanks
neha

Try experimenting with a few things. Here are some suggestions:

1- What happens when you write only plain text to the browser through the asp script? Does that give you the effect you want?

2- Write the result to a text stream to file using a scripting fileSystemObject and then redirect to it. That might also work for you.

3- If you still want the data in a tabular form with borders around the cell you will likely need to get creative with special characters or keep it in an HTML format but stripping out any extar code that might be hard to print.

Let me know what you try.

Jared