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Mighty · Apr 17, 2003

I have a print button on a screen which, when clicked, I want to open a new window, print the contents and close it. However, it's not working.

The window will open and print but it's not closing.
I have the window.print() function called onLoad and then am trying to use the window.onafterprint() to call the window.close function.

Any ideas why this doesn't work. I put a debug message in the onafterprint function and it appears to be calling this function even before the page prints.

Mighty

jemminger · Apr 17, 2003

in my test, both onbeforeprint and onafterprint fired before my printer dialog appeared:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onbeforeprint = function () {
alert("before&quot

;
}
window.onafterprint = function () {
alert("after&quot

;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

=========================================================
while (!succeed) try();
-jeff

Mighty · Apr 18, 2003

Jeff,

Thanks for the info - I found some information on the Microsoft site which basically said that it won't work.

Mighty

jjangli · Apr 18, 2003

Hi,

Just "queue" up the commands:

window.open....
window.print(); the print dialogue will appear.
window.close();

This will work nicely.

Mighty · Apr 22, 2003

Thanks jjangli,

That worked a treat. I never thought of doing it that way!!

Mighty

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