I've created a nested grid with a css style sheet and behavior to get a scrolling grid with fixed header, also I've set up paging. Now, when I print I want to print the entire grid and not just what is seen on screen. So I set up a javascript function to remove css behavior from the grid and do a __dopostback(). This all works correctly as my page reposts without the scrolling and the entire datagrid is exposed. The problem is that the preview/print is printing BEFORE the __dopostback(). I don't get it???

Cory Bonallo
Developer

Is your print command happening before the call to postback? Well, even if it's after it, as soon as you issue that print command, the browser takes a snapshot of the page and dumps it to the print procedure of the browser. This happens before the browser has had a chance to post and redraw the page.

If it's printing OK as you have it right now, you don't even need to do a postback. Just remove the CSS formatting that sets up the scrolling, issue the print command, then switch back on the CSS formatting.

(Of course, all this hinges on the browser supporting the changing of the appropriate styles.)

Peter

I am trying to avoid having a print button on the screen. I want the users to be able to use the print button on the browser. The onBeforePrint() is a built in function for IE 5.0 and above that you can call using javascript. This is where I have the __dopostback and it's supposed to happen BEFORE it prints.

Cory Bonallo
Developer