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Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content

From "Teodor V." <teodor-see-signature@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content
Date 2016-04-06 11:41 +0200
Organization Me, Myself & I
Message-ID <ne2lf9$m7g$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <ne1qnb$763$2@dont-email.me> <print-20160406032602@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <ne2bvd$l8d$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2016-04-06 09:00, Mike S wrote:
> On 4/5/2016 7:33 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> Iow can I ignore everything but the content I
>>> want to print and use html tags to formate it, like maybe just
>>> formatting the content in a new div and printing that?
>>
>>    Yes. Copy the content to a new window. »w = window.open ...«,
>>    »w.write( contents )«, »w.print ...«.
>>
>>    If you have a popup-blocker: Use a custom css for printing,
>>    which will hide everything but the content.
>>
>>    Or: Save the old document in a variable. Replace document by
>>    content. Print. Restore old document.
>>
>>    In jQuery, see »printElement«.
>>
> printElement looks good.
> 
> http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1591-ask-ben-print-part-of-a-web-page-with-jquery.htm

FWIW, the CSS approach is the most compatible for users who fly with
Javascript disabled.
I use it the pages I design, minimal CSS and formatting, just enough to
produce a clean printout.

/Teo.


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OT : min. requirements for printing web page content Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-05 19:05 -0700
  Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-06 00:00 -0700
    Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content "Teodor V." <teodor-see-signature@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-06 11:41 +0200
      Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-04-06 10:57 -0300
      Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-07 23:45 -0700
  Re: OT : min. requirements for printing web page content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-06 20:22 +0200

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