printing external html page

[dm]

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
advance for any help.

Dave

[Stuart Palmer]

I think the solution here is to open the newwindow = window.open(newpage);
but outside the screens view i.e set the popup to open in a specific
location, then newwindow.print(); then newwindow.close();

I think I have seen this done before, but don't forget about these peps
without JS who won't be able to do this in this way.

Stu

"dm" <hy******@mn.astound.net> wrote in message
news:c0**********@news.astound.net...

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
advance for any help.

Dave

[dm]

Thanks for replying,
I have figured out a way in the meantime similar to your idea with some
help from a post somewhere else. I have a layer containing an iframe
with the text positioned off screen. I made a button in the active html
that that executes code to put focus on the frame and print it. Before
that I have it test the type of browser to determine which code to
execute to print the page (since there seem to differences between the
browsers). Works like a charm now. Thanks.

dave

Stuart Palmer wrote:

I think the solution here is to open the newwindow = window.open(newpage);
but outside the screens view i.e set the popup to open in a specific
location, then newwindow.print(); then newwindow.close();

I think I have seen this done before, but don't forget about these peps
without JS who won't be able to do this in this way.

Stu

"dm" <hy******@mn.astound.net> wrote in message
news:c0**********@news.astound.net...

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
advance for any help.

Dave