Printing website content.

[ss1289]

Hey guys.
Right now I have a multiple page website that pulls it's content from a database. What I want to do is create a link in the main header (the part that is displayed on every page) that will print all the content within the whole website at once. Basically I want to pull all the info and put it into one webpage (with a print format) and then print it, BUT I don't want to display that print webpage. Whenever the user clicks the link to print, then it will print the print formatted webpage without sending the user to that page. I don't want the user to have to print each page seperately, but I also don't want the user to be able to view the print formatted webpage. Can anyone give me some ideas?

[ray326]

Unless the printer to which you refer is connected to your web/app server you can't do what you describe.

[felgall]

The closest you can get to what you want would be to display the page with everything in it so that your visitors can print it.

[ss1289]

The closest you can get to what you want would be to display the page with everything in it so that your visitors can print it.

Well that's basically what I wanted to do but without actually displaying it. I know I can use window.print() to print it automatically but I was trying to figure out how not to display any of it.

[felgall]

Unfortunately, if you don't display the page then it can't be printed.