printing external html page

[dm]

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
advance for any help.

Dave

[Stuart Palmer]

Re: printing external html page

I think the solution here is to open the newwindow = window.open(new page);
but outside the screens view i.e set the popup to open in a specific
location, then newwindow.print (); then newwindow.close ();

I think I have seen this done before, but don't forget about these peps
without JS who won't be able to do this in this way.

Stu

"dm" <hydr0gen@mn.as tound.net> wrote in message
news:c0evre$k1q $1@news.astound .net...[color=blue]
> Hey,
> I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
> displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
> of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
> up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
> advance for any help.
>
> Dave[/color]

[dm]

Re: printing external html page

Thanks for replying,
I have figured out a way in the meantime similar to your idea with some
help from a post somewhere else. I have a layer containing an iframe
with the text positioned off screen. I made a button in the active html
that that executes code to put focus on the frame and print it. Before
that I have it test the type of browser to determine which code to
execute to print the page (since there seem to differences between the
browsers). Works like a charm now. Thanks.

dave

Stuart Palmer wrote:[color=blue]
> I think the solution here is to open the newwindow = window.open(new page);
> but outside the screens view i.e set the popup to open in a specific
> location, then newwindow.print (); then newwindow.close ();
>
> I think I have seen this done before, but don't forget about these peps
> without JS who won't be able to do this in this way.
>
> Stu
>
> "dm" <hydr0gen@mn.as tound.net> wrote in message
> news:c0evre$k1q $1@news.astound .net...
>[color=green]
>>Hey,
>>I was wondering if anyone knew a way to print a page, other than the one
>>displayed. I don't want the other page to display at all. I was thinking
>>of placing a button on the page that is being displayed, which will pull
>>up the print dialog to print another page. Is that possible? Thanks in
>>advance for any help.
>>
>>Dave[/color]
>
>
>[/color]