print external html file without opening it

**autofab** · 12-29-2004 06:55 AM

hi everybody!!
I just found a useful code to print an external html file with no need of opening it...
it works fine as long as the button is in a html page with no frame, but I need to use it in a frameset.
so: this code works if I open directly the bar-file and click on the print button, but when I open the whole html file (text + bar) it will print the bar-page.
I tried adding the "head" code in the main file too, but this way it would lose the "href" and try to print a "something" file...
what I seem to understand is that somehow I should change a path and/or a variable in the function in order to make it work..but I really don't know what... thanks for your help!!

this is the code:

HTML Code:

[HEAD]
[link id="prt" name="prt" rel=alternate media=print href="something"/]
[script]
function printWindow(){
 bV = parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
 if (bV >= 4) window.print()
}
function setPrintedPage(altdoc) {
var prt;
var prt = document.getElementsByTagName("link")[0];
prt.setAttribute("href", altdoc);
printWindow();
}
[/script]
[/HEAD]
 
[BODY]
[img src="print.gif" onClick="setPrintedPage('document1.htm');"> 
[/BODY]

**autofab** · 12-29-2004 12:34 PM

is it so difficult??
I was expecting a reply in 10 minutes...
I know many of you out there can solve this question, I'll be waiting...
thanks!!

**Warren86** · 12-29-2004 04:16 PM

Your arrogant sense of entitlement astounds.

I'm posting the following for the benefit of others.
Using a frameset:

------------ Frameset -----------
<HTML>
<Head>
<Link rel='alternate' media='print' href=null>
<Script Language=JavaScript>

function setPrintPage(prnThis){

prnDoc = document.getElementsByTagName('Link');
prnDoc[0].setAttribute('href', prnThis);
window.print();
}

</Script>
</Head>
<frameset rows="80,*" frameborder="yes" border="1" framespacing="0">
<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="yes" src="Top.html" >
<frame name="bottomFrame" scrolling="yes" src="Bottom.html">
</frameset>
</HTML>

----------- Top.html & Bottom.html ------------
<HTML>
<Body>
Click to print Test.hmtl
<img src="print.gif" onClick="parent.setPrintPage('Test.html')">
</Body>
</HTML>

-----------------

----------- Not using a Frameset -------------

<HTML>
<Head>
<Link rel='alternate' media='print' href=null>
<Script Language=JavaScript>

function setPrintPage(prnThis){

prnDoc = document.getElementsByTagName('link');
prnDoc[0].setAttribute('href', prnThis);
window.print();
}

</Script>
</Head>
<Body>
Click to Print Test.html
<img src="print.gif" onClick="setPrintPage('Test.html');">
</Body>
</HTML>

**autofab** · 12-30-2004 04:12 AM

uh uh! time for making apologies...
hi warren, I beg your pardon for my lack of netiquette...
would you please consider English is not my mother tongue... actually I had to take my dictionary to catch the meaning of your first line.
You see... I was only trying to "push" and provoke some reaction, I apologize for sounding arrogant.
anyway, thank you very much...the script is simply perfect!! and quite "didactic" too... now I know about the "parent" path issue...
thanks again!!

by the way, what does KMA mean??

**webuser2007** · 03-25-2007 11:45 PM

i have used the code for printing php page.passing the php values works fine but how to pass the html form values.i m not getting the html form values plz help me
this is my code

<img src="print.gif" onClick="setPrintPage('print_inv1.php?order_of=<? echo $order_of; ?>&cust_type=<? echo $cust_type; ?>&cust_name=<? echo $cust_name; ?>&paymentmode=document.form10.paymentmode.value&remarks=document.form10.remarks.value');">

i m getting the php values passed to print_inv1.php page m fails to get form values...PLZ HELP..Thnaks in advance

Originally Posted by Warren86

Your arrogant sense of entitlement astounds.

I'm posting the following for the benefit of others.
Using a frameset:

------------ Frameset -----------
<HTML>
<Head>
<Link rel='alternate' media='print' href=null>
<Script Language=JavaScript>

function setPrintPage(prnThis){

prnDoc = document.getElementsByTagName('Link');
prnDoc[0].setAttribute('href', prnThis);
window.print();
}

</Script>
</Head>
<frameset rows="80,*" frameborder="yes" border="1" framespacing="0">
<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="yes" src="Top.html" >
<frame name="bottomFrame" scrolling="yes" src="Bottom.html">
</frameset>
</HTML>

----------- Top.html & Bottom.html ------------
<HTML>
<Body>
Click to print Test.hmtl
<img src="print.gif" onClick="parent.setPrintPage('Test.html')">
</Body>
</HTML>

-----------------

----------- Not using a Frameset -------------

<HTML>
<Head>
<Link rel='alternate' media='print' href=null>
<Script Language=JavaScript>

function setPrintPage(prnThis){

prnDoc = document.getElementsByTagName('link');
prnDoc[0].setAttribute('href', prnThis);
window.print();
}

</Script>
</Head>
<Body>
Click to Print Test.html
<img src="print.gif" onClick="setPrintPage('Test.html');">
</Body>
</HTML>

**badlt007** · 05-22-2008 09:23 AM

This does not work:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<link id="prt" name="prt" rel=alternate media=print href="something"/>
<script>
function printWindow(){
bV = parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
if (bV >= 4) window.print()
}
function setPrintedPage(altdoc) {
var prt;
var prt = document.getElementsByTagName("link")[0];
prt.setAttribute("href", altdoc);
printWindow();
}
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<img src="print.gif" onClick="setPrintedPage('document1.htm');">
</BODY>
</HTML>

It only prints the actual page the link image is on. I have inserted 10 different URLs in replace of 'document1.htm' and none of them printed. Only this page gets printed.

Any other options?

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