I would like to print a portion of the page, that is a div.
Also I need css files referred, so it will get printed as we see in the page.
I tried to use jQPrint then printThis . But my IE7
browser was getting crashed when i click a button on second time. Not
sure what is the problem. My page has lot of elements (100+ input
fields and 3 Grids)
Finally, I followed this http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1591-Ask-Ben-Print-Part-Of-A-Web-Page-With-jQuery.htm and implemented. Now no crash!
Now how can I show a print preview dialog before sending printer?
Something like this https://github.com/etimbo/jquery-print-preview-plugin, I tried this too but its not working :(
I did this same task in a prior job, and completed y the following example. We set it up to where what ever part of the design we were sending to a printer, we would replicate the HTML, and create a dynamic page with that content, and then trigger the browser print dialog. If you want to do what you are asking, without a lot of "magic", this is a good way to handle it.
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Hellow everyone,
I'm having a problem on the site where my images' widths are not being calculated properly (they're not showing either on first load as well) inside jCarouselLite plugin.
I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that they're loaded from the CDN and don't have a proper content-type set (or something similar). (Example apartment)
If you check the List of apartments, you can go inside each one by clicking on the name or on the picture. It's INSIDE that pictures do not show up for me in any browser I've tried. If, however, I refresh the page, they show up fine.
Can anyone suggest what may be happening here?
On my website I have an option to display some data and also to download it in csv format. Some of the data is quite large (20,000 - 900,000 rows in SQL). When I display it on the site I use paging so that it quickly displays only x amount of rows at a time, however, the download link of course should and is downloading the entire report which can take several seconds to a couple of minutes depending on file size. I'm wondering if there is a way to create an interim pop-up or message in-line that says something like "Gathering Information..." where I could additionally put an animated gif so the user knows something is happening. Creating this shouldn't be an issue but I'm not sure if there is a way to trigger that to disappear once the download pop-up appears. The solutions I've seen on this site all suggest using a timer, but thats not an option in this case as the times will vary a lot.
I'm using classic ASP so would like to use either that or JavaScipt. I could additionally use flash if makes a difference.
I would probably wire up the "Gathering info..." message to be hidden upon receipt of a Comet style message from the server that could be sent out as soon as the file is ready to download on its end.
The gist of it is to use a cookie that you set using pure javascript or jquery cookies for ease of use. Then you send the cookie's name to your server, which sends an update for said cookie with the file once delivered.
Meanwhile you have some JS code that checks periodically for the cookie to see if its updated, and can then update the layout accordingly.
I ended up doing this a different way. On my site I have page we'll call "default.asp" on that page is a link to another asp wel'll call "download.asp". download.asp is where the code is to do the SQL query and create the report, which means this is where the wait comes in. After the report is prepared the popup to save, open, etc is displayed. What I ended up doing is creating a div that by default is hidden. When the download button is clicked the div is unhidden, then just before the popup is displayed I once again hide the div. Hopefully this can be of help to someone else as well.
I am replacing the showModalDialog function which no longer works in Chrome and FF. We have many applications using that. The problem is, pop up windows do post instructions to the web server and update the database. For instance if there's a list of accounts on screen and edit is clicked on one of the accounts, an edit page appears as a pop up, posts changes back to the web server, then the list is refreshed with changes. The entire list may be refreshed or just text that changed.
I made a javascript function to do pop up content using overlays. I thought it would be simple to replace showModalDialog calls with the javascript function, but I did not consider post instructions sent by the pop up page to update the database, and complexity to facilitate that. Posting can be done via ajax-like functionality, encapsulated in a set of functions. Before I start writing code to do this I'd like to know what other people have done in this circumstance. Thanks
I wrote some javascript to do everything I want. Since my pop up windows had javascript, I needed to run javascript upon rendering modal content, and also when the modal content went away. This will produce any number of overlays on top of each other, managing each. Content can optionally appear in a frame with a title bar, closely matching the functionality of showModalDialog.
Download at http://bikehappy.org/modal.html . If used, please give feedback saying if it works and provide update suggestions.
In my application i want to print payment receipt.If i enter amount and click on save it will print automatically.
The data look like
Thank you for receiving
Text Box value( from payment page) amount .
In the print i don't need any thing like URL except data .
Thank you in advance.
If you are willing to use a java applet, this might work:
http://code.google.com/p/jzebra
Unfortunately for the most part, you will be unable to control this.
You can do a few tricks such as a separate media=print CSS style sheet which will allow you to fully customise the page, however, you will still be at the mercy of whatever web browser your visitor is using - most of which print headers and footers.
The best thing I can suggest if this is very important is to look at integrating a PDF component in to your application - It won't be easy, but, it should work well.
You can then have the confirmation page as normal and a dynamically built PDF document that will be loaded from the same information. You can then fully customise it to your exact needs.
I am currently trying to do something very similar myself - currently looking at this example with PDF Sharp.
No thoughts on this one? Anyone?
Here is my scenario:
I have a form where the user selects a report type, and then selects a list of users they want to generate reports for. When they submit the form, a new window is opened that uses pagination to allow the user to review each user report individual by using next and previous links.
The user wants the option to:
print both the currently displayed report by itself (that's an easy one), and
a "print all" option to print all the selected reports.
However, each report for each user must have its own "Page x of n" footer.
For the footer, I have been using the browser footer options, but in order to have the page numbering start new on each report printout, I have to make a separate window.print() call for each one. I have implemented this this way, and it works, but it's awful because each print() call causes a new print dialog to display, meaning the user has to click print in each dialog to finalise the print request. Many reports = a stupid number of popped up print dialogs.
Ideally, I would like the printing of a report group to look like a single print job, but I need that page count to be restarted for each report.
I thought of trying to count pages myself to make my own footer, but that seemed like a daunting task considering all the variables that could affect how many pages a report would occupy. I also read some about using ActiveX and WebBrowser objects to force prints and hide the print dialog, but I have had no success with that because I am running on XP SP2. Also, I understand it's frowned upon from a security perspective, and it's not a good cross-browser solution.
Has anyone dealt with printing of this type before and would have some suggestions for a way to make this work or a better way to handle it?
Thanks in advance.
I've seen this done two ways the simplist using the MeadCo scriptx component which alows you to print without a dialog. But as you rightly say this is not good from a security perspective. This was done in a corporate environment where they had control over the end users browser.
The second would be to go down the ajax route and load each report page individually, without prining, then concat each report html together into one doucment adding any needed page breaks. Finally rendering to an IFRAME and calling print on that frame to print all reports in one action.
This isn't tremendously helpful, but you may want to look into using a pdf generator, such as PDFlib or fpdf. Doing this with static pages will incur all the problems you stated, as well as some which you didn't (such as the user setting his own font or font size and ruining your pagination).