printer friendly implementation

[ST]

Hi,

I'm implementing a printer friendly feature for all the pages on a web site.
I'm separating the header, content, and footer into separate ascx files,
which are contained in the main file. In the mail file I have a link button
which, supposedly, when clicked on, passes the current content page's url and
page title to the printer friendly page, which has a placeholder for the
content page. I could do this with session variables, but if I do it this
way, how do I make a function common to all to accomplish this? I can't use
a class file with session variables, so I'm trying to post all the content
pages to the printer friendly page but have had no luck so far. Can I use
javascript for this? Or can this be accomplished with code behind? Any
suggestions and/or comments will be greatly appreciated!

Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance!

-ST

[Ravikanth[MVP]]

RE: printer friendly implementation

Hi

Please check the following article

http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/printview.asp

HTH
Ravikanth[MVP]

"ST" wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing a printer friendly feature for all the pages on a web site.
> I'm separating the header, content, and footer into separate ascx files,
> which are contained in the main file. In the mail file I have a link button
> which, supposedly, when clicked on, passes the current content page's url and
> page title to the printer friendly page, which has a placeholder for the
> content page. I could do this with session variables, but if I do it this
> way, how do I make a function common to all to accomplish this? I can't use
> a class file with session variables, so I'm trying to post all the content
> pages to the printer friendly page but have had no luck so far. Can I use
> javascript for this? Or can this be accomplished with code behind? Any
> suggestions and/or comments will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance!
>
> -ST[/color]

[Colin Young]

Re: printer friendly implementation

Another option that works in modern browsers that are at least mostly
standards-compliant (and that includes IE 6 which is how old now?) is to use
CSS to define a print style sheet. See
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ It's a much easier option
than the traditional method of launching a new page.

Colin

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> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing a printer friendly feature for all the pages on a web[/color]
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> I'm separating the header, content, and footer into separate ascx files,
> which are contained in the main file. In the mail file I have a link[/color]
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> which, supposedly, when clicked on, passes the current content page's url[/color]
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> page title to the printer friendly page, which has a placeholder for the
> content page. I could do this with session variables, but if I do it this
> way, how do I make a function common to all to accomplish this? I can't[/color]
use[color=blue]
> a class file with session variables, so I'm trying to post all the content
> pages to the printer friendly page but have had no luck so far. Can I use
> javascript for this? Or can this be accomplished with code behind? Any
> suggestions and/or comments will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance!
>
> -ST[/color]