Window.Print shows URL from link on page

[tshad]

How do you get window.print() to not print the url of an anchor tag?

I have the following in my page:

<a href="../Views/Home.aspx" style="text-decoration : none; color : #000000;">
<img src="../Images/logo.png" alt="logo" id="logo">
My Company
</a>

This just shows the logo and "My Company" on my screen but on my printer it shows the logo, "My Company" and "(../Views/Home.aspx)".

How do I get the printed version to not show the url?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[ChrisHirst]

Printers do not 'know' how to handle a "linked" image so they do the best they can.

Chris.

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[Olaf Doschke]

Which OS and browser are you using to print?
Chrome has the option to turn on/off header and footer
IE offers to customize the header and footer in page setup.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[ChrisHirst]

Which OS and browser are you using to print?

I get the impression it is the other visitors to the 'page' that the OP wants to control printing for.

Chris.

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[Olaf Doschke]

I have the same impression, but knowing where this is influenced you can easier deduct this is nothing you can control in your HTML. It's a per Browser and/or OS behavior and the user/visitor can influence that. I wonder whether CSS can influence what header/footer a printed page has, it only influences the HTML page look itself.

If you want control of the printed HTML page, I'd use some service generating PDFs from a page and offer that as download for printing, eg

http://pdfcrowd.com/

Bye, Olaf.

 

[tshad]

I am not trying to turn off any headers or footers. I can do that fine.

I don't want to turn off the header. The anchor has our logo in it, as you can see from my first post and we want to print that (the image) - so I can't hide the anchor.

My problem is that in a browser the link address is not shown - just the text. If you print the page directly (print button from browser) it prints correctly - without the link's url. But if you try to use windows.print() - it prints the url and that is what I am trying to prevent.

In this case, I am using IE 10.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I don't think this is a bug or feature of IE. CSS might cause this printing behavior, eg a[href]:after { content: " (" attr(href) ")"; }

Bye, Olaf.