noprint buttons

tsimsha · August 24th, 2004, 10:30 PM

Hi,

I have a webpage with a report and a button to go back.
I dont want to print the button when i print the webpage.
How can i do this?

Any reply is highly appreciated.

sinapra · August 24th, 2004, 11:30 PM

hi
Have you given any print option in the code itself? If the user has to use Ctrl+P option, then as far as I know, you may not be able to disable, but you can use Javascript that looks for the option chosen by user, i.e., if the user selects print option Ctrl+P, you can disable the button. Else, if you have written the coding for print option, you can directly write a condition where the code will check onClick event.
I hope you are clear with what I said.
Regards

sinapra

tsimsha · August 25th, 2004, 01:56 AM

Hello sinapra,

I didnt write any code to print. Just clicking the browser's print button. The button i need is to go back to the selection. I am generating payslips for 3 employees at a time.

I have given multiple option in the select control which has employee IDs(value) and names(text). Every time i am selecting 3 employees.
Ofcourse! i can use browser back button to go back page. But the problem is, even though i select another 3 employees the pay slip displays only the last employees. Thats why i want to have a button to go back (location.href="payslipmain.asp"). then its ok. But when i print the button will also print. I dont want that...

thnx

sinapra · August 25th, 2004, 02:52 AM

Hi

Ok so now as soon as user clicks the browser print option you want to disable the back and other related buttons.
I am not sure how the button could be put off when user selects the print option from browser, instead, you can just provide another button say 'PRINT NOW' which would take the user to a new page with the preview of the page without buttons. And this page can be used to print.
Let me know if it helps--------

Regards

sinapra

rajanikrishna · August 25th, 2004, 03:08 AM

Hello,

I think the original post dont want to have another page without buttons. He said that he want to just to not print the button while printing the current page. I am not sure but i think this can be done using CSS2.

<head>
<style>
@media print{
input.prncls {visibility:hidden;}
}
@media screen {
input.prncls {border-style:solid;border-width:1;visibility:visible;}
}
</style>
</head>

<input type="button" value="Back" onclick="javascript:location.href='payslipmain.asp ';" class="prncls">

I think this helps.