Hi,

I'm developing a web application for our company and i hit a wall with the printing feature.

What I need is something like this: if the user presses a button, two copies of the current page (of course, with separate css for print media) will be printed out on the default printer. And there must not be any other content generated by the browsers (headers like the url, page title, page 1 of x, etc).

Is there any way to achieve this functionality? Right now all i can do is pop up the printing dialog with a simple javascript command, but thats unacceptable...

In your print css file, you can specify what to hide and what to show for print purposes.

You can only apply CSS formatting to HTML elements. The header/footer that your browser adds is not a HTML element (though they affect them indirectly).


You can find those header settings in FF: File->Page setup-> MArgins & Header/Footer (if i remember around the same place in IE)

You can have it print twice using javascript: http://www.javascript-page.com/printpage.html just repeat the window.print(). Where it prints is not up to the browser but rather the user. The browser will print using the print css file most likely. If you don't want a header maybe use a blank title?

Originally Posted by Arenlor

You can have it print twice using javascript: http://www.javascript-page.com/printpage.html just repeat the window.print(). Where it prints is not up to the browser but rather the user. The browser will print using the print css file most likely. If you don't want a header maybe use a blank title?

Unfortunately window.print() will just pop up the print window. The user have to set the copies to 2 and hit the actual print button.

Default printer is set for a reason... so applications can chose it without asking the user.

Also, a blank title will only eliminate 1 of the 4 header fields. Page 1 of X, the url and the date is still present :\


And yes, the browser will use the css assigned for the printer, thats not a problem.

The page 1 of X, the url, and the date are things added by the printer itself, not the browser. I use Lynx at time (it's text only) along with old versions of some browsers which don't allow typed css files, in these cases it wouldn't print the correct CSS. So unless you can force a single standardized setup for all your users which includes changing the printer settings to not print the extra information, then you're going to have to accept the few things out of your control.