Printing from a web page.

[Mufasa]

I have a page where somebody enters some information. On submitting the
page, I want to take the info, format it 'pretty' and print the page
automatically for the user.

Can anybody point me somewhere to look on how to do this?

Thanks - Jeff.

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Well you can't automatically print at the clients printer as you have no
rights to do that - but you could present a formatted PDF for them to print
if they choose to do that.

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

 

[Mufasa]

How do web pages do it where they have a button that says 'Print this page'
?

 

[Mufasa]

With that - here's another question -

If I have a web page that somebody is going to print, how can I put page
breaks in it to force the print to eject the page?

I don't even know if I can embed a ^L on the page.

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

You can invoke hte printer dialogue with a single line fo javascript

<a href="JavaScript:window.print();">Print this page</a>

But to format the page correctly, you should read up on CSS print

http://www.tufts.edu/webcentral/tutorials/printcss/

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

 

[siccolo]

You can invoke hte printer dialogue with a single line fo javascript

<a href="JavaScript:window.print();">Print this page</a>

But to format the page correctly, you should read up on CSS print

http://www.tufts.edu/webcentral/tutorials/printcss/

Regards

John Timney (MVP)http://www.johntimney.comhttp://www.johntimney.com/blog









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you may want to try <DIV style="page-break-after:always"></DIV> as a
page break...


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[Tanzim Saqib]

It has nothing to do about ASP.NET nor server side code. It's accomplished
by many websites in purely JavaScript way:

window.print();

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