Printing frames issue?

Craigieboy · Jan 21, 2002

Hi everyone!

I have a two frame browser window - a contents frame and a main display frame. I wish to add a print button to the contents menu which will print whatever the main page contains.

Can someone tell me how to add a button in one frame that prints the contents of the other frame?

Thanks in anticipation for your help.

Craig ;-)

link9 · Jan 21, 2002

parent.top.frames[1].document.print();

You may need to cash the .document to make it:

parent.top.frames[1].print();

One way or the other should work.

Craigieboy · Jan 21, 2002

Thanks link9 for your reply.

The two examples you provided didn't actually work for me, but definately did get me to thinking along your lines and found that writing a little function within the <head> tags did the trick...

<script language="JavaScript">

</script>

... then on my button I just call onClick="printframe()" and bingo!

Thanks for making things clearer for me link9.

Craig

~~ Craigieboy ~~

link9 · Jan 22, 2002

I wonder if:

window.parent.framename.print();

would work?

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