Hypothetical Question

[DigitalBoy]

Hey gang,

I attempting to write code for a revved-up print button and I was wondering if what I want to do is possible. Here's the basic gist of it. I have an HTML table in my page template that contains the information that I want to have printed. I was thinking of:

1) Somehow storing that information in a variable.
2) Sending that variable to be printed.

What do you think? Is this possible?

Thanks,

- DB
Matt Torbin Designs

http://home.earthlink.net/~mtorbin/

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[trollacious]

Define what you mean by:

2) Sending that variable to be printed.

 

[xutopia]

boohoohooo..

Nope. can't do that.

you could however open a popup window print inside it the variable in question you want to send to the printer.

However when you call window.print() a dialog box appears to ask the user to choose his printer settings he then has a choice to click ok or not. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[DigitalBoy]

Ok, take this page for example. Let's say that I wanted to create a print button that ONLY printed the purple postings and responses (NOT the sidebars). I'd have to do something like the following:

<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
function printMe() {
var cellData = document.[tableName].rows(0).cells(1).value;
alert(cellData);
}
//-->
</script>

Will this work? Matt Torbin Designs

http://home.earthlink.net/~mtorbin/

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ICQ: 68300740

 

[DigitalBoy]

Well, if I can open a popUp window, then I can do what I want without the use of the popUp. I simply have to send the variable to the right function... right? Matt Torbin Designs

http://home.earthlink.net/~mtorbin/

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[xutopia]

fact of the matter is that sending stuff to the printer with javascript needs the confirmation of the user.

Otherwise I would be printing all kinds of stuff on peoples computer everywhere.

See the security concern why JavaScript is not meant to do this? Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[DigitalBoy]

No, I completely understand that and I'm OK with that. This code for an Intranet site, so I can control more of what is going on (I probably should have told you that from the get-go).

How would I go about doing this? Matt Torbin Designs

http://home.earthlink.net/~mtorbin/

AIM: dgtlby
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[trollacious]

You can either have the browser print the whole page, or none of the page. Javascript isn't doing the printing request, the browser is. Javascript only accesses the print-the-whole-page function built into the browser. So, like xutopia said, if you only want to print certain information from a page, you have to write just that info to another page and print that one.

 

[DigitalBoy]

Oh, I get it. Man, I see what you're saying now. Thanks all for the help...

- DB Matt Torbin Designs

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