print()

Snib · January 1st, 2004, 02:41 PM

I have a page that when the user clicks a button, it should open a popup and print it.

However, what I am doing is opening a blank page and writing on it, then telling it to print from the opener.

Nothing happens when I use this code:

Code:

//onclick fires this function:
function print_page()
{
 //this part works fine...
 var newpage = window.open("","newpage");
 //this part works fine...
 newpage.document.write("a bunch of data");
 //this part does nothing!
 newpage.window.print();

 //I have also tried:
 newpage.print();
 newpage.document.print();
 //and several other things...
}

Perhaps this is some sort of security issue? I get no errors, just nothing...

Thanks

Snib

joefawcett · January 2nd, 2004, 11:57 AM

You need to close document before printing:

Code:

newpage.document.write("a bunch of data...");
newpage.document.close();
newpage.print();

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Joe

Snib · January 2nd, 2004, 12:05 PM

Thank you Joe, works perfectly.