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leir

Mar 16 2005, 06:13 AM

Anybody can help?

This is the scenario:

Page1 contains a link "print". Once you've clicked the link, page2 will be printed out.

Would that be possible?

What i have now is this line of code:

QUOTE

<div align="center"><a href="javascript:window.print();">print</a> </div>

But I wanted that line to be in Page1 then the page that will be printed is page2. And the data in page2 is no need to be displayed. Meaning once u've clicked the link, it will automatically print that page (page2).

What would be the proper code?

Please help. Thanks

bassrek

Mar 16 2005, 12:49 PM

Hey, leir. I've had to do stuff like this before, and this is the best solution I've been able to come up with.

My source page has a very simple javascript function:

CODE

function openwin(where) {
window.open(where,"TempWindow","width=300,height=210,resizable=yes,status=yes")
}

With a link somewhere in the page:

CODE

<a href="javascript:openwin('YourPage.htm')">Click me!</a>

And on the page you're linking to, add this code to the body tag:

CODE

It's not entirely seamless; the user will see the popup and the print dialogue, but as soon as the click the button on the dialogue, the pop-up will close.

Note: take out the underscore (_) in the on_load function. The forum strips out the code as a safety measure

Willy probably has a better solution than mine, and seeing as this isn't really ASP-releated, I'm going to move this to the javascript forum.

leir

Mar 17 2005, 01:09 AM

Thanks a lot bassrek.

bassrek

Mar 17 2005, 01:41 AM

Does that work for you then, leir?

leir

Mar 28 2005, 02:05 AM

Yup it does!

Thanks.

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