Print Preview using JavaScript onClick?

Kebmo

The client insists on having a link or button that the user can click
to view the printable version in the browser. I already have the css
done for the print version, so thats not a problem. I don't want to
create duplicate pages if I can help it (I anticipate many updates as
the months go by, and I don't want to have to do double the work).

I know I have seen this functionality before, but I can't seem to find
it now. Is there existing script to open the print preview pane with an
onClick?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kebmo

Oct 27 '05 #1

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Kebmo wrote:

The client insists on having a link or button that the user can click
to view the printable version in the browser. I already have the css
done for the print version, so thats not a problem. I don't want to
create duplicate pages if I can help it (I anticipate many updates as
the months go by, and I don't want to have to do double the work).

I know I have seen this functionality before, but I can't seem to find
it now. Is there existing script to open the print preview pane with an
onClick?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kebmo

In the document <head> : (no JavaScript needed)

<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="all"
href="stylesCommon.css">
<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="screen"
href="stylesBrowser.css">
<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="print"
href="stylesPrint.css">

Oct 27 '05 #2

Kebmo

Thanks. I have this sort of setup already. When the user prints the
page, it uses the print-only styledsheet I made for that purpose.

What I need is to be able to click a link or button and open the Print
Preview pane just as if I had gone to file-->print preview.

Is this even possible?

Oct 27 '05 #3

Evertjan.

Kebmo wrote on 27 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:

Thanks. I have this sort of setup already. When the user prints the
page, it uses the print-only styledsheet I made for that purpose.

What I need is to be able to click a link or button and open the Print
Preview pane just as if I had gone to file-->print preview.

Is this even possible?
Using serverside jscript unser ASP:

<%@ Language=JScript %>
<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="all"
href="stylesCommon.css">

<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="screen"
<% ' ASP Jscript
if(request.querystring('print')=='yes'){
%>
href="stylesBrowser.css"
<%
}else{
%>
href="stylesPrint.css"
<%
};
%>

Oct 27 '05 #4

Kebmo wrote:

The client insists on having a link or button that the user can click
to view the printable version in the browser.

Teach your client how to use File>Print Preview. Then she will stop wanting
that.
--
Cheers
Richard.

Oct 27 '05 #5

Evertjan.

rf wrote on 27 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:

Kebmo wrote:
The client insists on having a link or button that the user can click
to view the printable version in the browser.

Teach your client how to use File>Print Preview. Then she will stop
wanting that.

Or let them use Fineprint.

<http://www.fineprint.com/>

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)

Oct 27 '05 #6

D. Patterson

Another option (the one that I use) is MeadCo's ScriptX ActiveX object.
They also have a way to make it (and pretty much any other ActiveX object)
work with other browsers.
Check out http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/about.asp
Dave

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The client insists on having a link or button that the user can click
to view the printable version in the browser. I already have the css
done for the print version, so thats not a problem. I don't want to
create duplicate pages if I can help it (I anticipate many updates as
the months go by, and I don't want to have to do double the work).

I know I have seen this functionality before, but I can't seem to find
it now. Is there existing script to open the print preview pane with an
onClick?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kebmo

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