Sending Form to Printer with Submit Button

treyball3 · Jun 20, 2001

I have created a form using CGI/perl. When the user clicks the submit button, it returns the info they entered along with some additional areas for text to be written in. The problem is, I want the page to automatically print when the user clicks the submit button, instead of the output being in an html page and then the user having to select print. Does anybody know if this is even possible and if so, how do I do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Todd

vcherubini · Jun 20, 2001

Well I am not sure if you can print the data within the text boxes, but you can use javascript.

For example, when the user clicks the button, on the new page that shows up, in the <body> tag, put a document.print().

But I don't think that you can print values in a form.

Check the JavaScript forum.

Hope this helps.

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Siberdude · Jun 24, 2001

Don't you lay out the form as plain text?
e.g.:

<body document.print>

Name: Joe Bloggs
Age: 67
Location: South West Mongolia
Intrests: Pizzas

</body>

if this is the case, yes thats the way to do it. As far as i know theres no cgi command to do it.

if your needing to print the current context of the form fields that might require more investigation.. perhaps a document.writeln() triggered on the loading of the page?

hope this helps
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Sending Form to Printer with Submit Button

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