Print dialog?

[Pselus]

how do I make the print dialog pop up in javascript?

[Khalid Ali]

<input type="button" value="Print" onclick="window.print()">

this should do it...:D

[Pselus]

tried it.
tried javascript:window.Print()
tried javascript:window.showPrintDialog()
tried javascript:window.printpage()
tried javascript:Print()

tried em all.......they all say the "object doesn't support this method or property"

[Khalid Ali]

holly...I thought copying and pasting was easy..but I guess I was wrong.
You are not implementing it correctly..please try to take a look at the lineof code I posted.
you are using Capital P as compare to small p????

window.print();

[Pselus]

good lord tell me I'm not that stupid.........

BAH! I am that stupid
that's what I get for not coding for an entire week.....bleh!

thx khalid....you always answer my questions promptly

[Khalid Ali]

:p
You are welcome
:p

[Pselus]

riddle me this:
when printing a webpage there are 4 items which show in the margins: The page title, the page number, the date and the webpage address.....is there any way for me to control this and make sure that one (or all) of these items do not appear?

[Khalid Ali]

I think you are talking about page setup settings.

On IE6+
Click on file
then select "Page Setup"

[Pselus]

so there isn't a way to take away the url dynamically?
I don't want the url to disappear on every printout from IE.....just the ones from my site.


btw....forgive my idiocy....I'm a VB.Net programmer :p

[Khalid Ali]

Thats allright...
.Net programmers are cool(cus of C# *_*)

JavaScript has its limitation as far as its allowed to access system resources.It can not make any changes to the browser or system settings.

[megavogel]

Dear all...

I wonder if someone did this for MAC users? I did a lot of stuff for Windows users where printing is always an issue.
The command window.print() is working within all IE's on
Windows but how is it on IE on a MAC? I tried to fire the
command on a MAC and nothing did happen. Is there
a different command for MAC users or is it just not possible
to display a printing dialoge on IE + MAC?

Thanks to everybody !
Dan:cool: