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usertest

Reputation: 27628

Print the contents of a DIV

Whats the best way to print the contents of a DIV?

Upvotes: 427

Views: 1059346

Answers (30)

djibe
djibe

Reputation: 3038

The best cross-browser pure Javascript solution in 2024 is to append an invisible iframe.

If the page has a btn-print button, then it will print the divPrint div.

It will keep the styles of your document.

document.getElementById('btn-print')?.addEventListener('click', () => {
    const iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
    const divElements = document.getElementById('divPrint').innerHTML;
    iframe.width = document.width;
    iframe.height = document.height;
    iframe.style.display = "none";
    document.body.appendChild(iframe);
    const doc = iframe.contentWindow.document;
    const styles = [...document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="stylesheet"], style')]
    .map(node => node.outerHTML)
    .join('');
    doc.open();
    doc.write(`<html><head><title>Print</title>${styles}</head><body>${divElements}</body></html>`);
    doc.close();

    // Print the iframe content
    iframe.contentWindow.focus();
    iframe.contentWindow.print();

    iframe.onload = () => { document.body.removeChild(iframe) };
  });

Upvotes: 0

Erik
Erik

Reputation: 870

Note: It's been over 13 years since the plugin mentioned below was written, as noted in the comments. It doesn't work any more due to changed API in jQuery. Feel free to fork and add a pull request!

Although this has been said by @gabe, If you are using jQuery, you can use my printElement plugin.

There's a sample, and more information about the plugin.

The usage is rather straight forward, just grab an element with a jQuery selector and print it:

$("#myDiv").printElement();

I hope it helps!

Upvotes: 47

Yryskul Turduev
Yryskul Turduev

Reputation: 307

function printDomElement(element) {
    element.classList.add("printCss");

    let printId = "printId";
    let name = ".printCss";
    let rules = "-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;height:100%;width:100%;position:fixed;top:0;left:0;margin:0;";

    var style = document.createElement('style');
    style.id = printId;
    style.media = "print";
    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);

    if (!(style.sheet || {}).insertRule)(style.styleSheet || style.sheet).addRule(name, rules);
    else style.sheet.insertRule(name + "{" + rules + "}", 0);

    window.print();

    setTimeout(() => {
      element.classList.remove("printCss");
      let elem = document.getElementById(printId);
      if (elem) elem.remove();
    }, 500);

  }

Upvotes: 1

Mahdi
Mahdi

Reputation: 65

pass the Element to this function to print:

function printElm(elm) {
  var orig = document.body.innerHTML;

  document.body.innerHTML = elm.outerHTML;
  print();
  document.body.innerHTML = orig;
}

Upvotes: 0

Jean G.T
Jean G.T

Reputation: 1

HTML > HEAD

  <script type="text/javascript">
    function printDiv() {
        var divToPrint = document.getElementById('printArea');  
    //Firefox was just opening a new window with same content as opener and not performing the printing dialog, so needed to make it open a new instance of the window opener    
        newWin= window.open(self.location.href);
    //We want to format the document appropriately
       newWin.document.write("\<!DOCTYPE html\>\<html lang='es'\>\<head\>\<meta charset='utf-8'\/\>\<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no'><meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=edge,chrome=1'\>\<meta name='HandheldFriendly' content='true'\/\>");
    //HTML ELEMENTS THAT WE WANT TO HIDE FROM THE PRINTING AREA
        newWin.document.write("<style type='text/css'>@media print{.dataTables_info,.dataTables_filter{height:0!important;width:0!important;margin:0!important;padding:0!important;min-height:0!important;line-height:0!important;overflow:visible!important;visibility:hidden}");
    //General Styling for Printing
        newWin.document.write("body {z-index:100!important;visibility:visible!important;position:relative!important;display:block!important;background-color:lightgray!important;height:297mm!important;width:211mm!important;position:relative!important;padding:0;top:0!important;left:0!important;margin:0!important;orphans:0!important;widows:0!important;overflow:visible!important;page-break-after:always}");
    //Some forced styling in css rules includying page break for a div
        newWin.document.write("body h1{font-size:1em; font-family:Verdana;} a.marked{color:black; text-decoration:none} .pagebreak { page-break-before: always; } ");
        newWin.document.write("@page{size:A4; margin:2em; orphans:0!important;widows:0!important}}</style>\<\/head>\<body>");
        newWin.document.write(divToPrint.innerHTML);
        newWin.document.write("</body></html>");
        newWin.focus();
        newWin.print();
    }
    </script>

HTML > BODY

<div id="printArea">

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
<!-- Page break -->
<div class="pagebreak">&nbsp;</div>

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Shedrack
Shedrack

Reputation: 743

Its bit late but I found this to be really really nice!!!

function printDiv(divID) {
    //Get the HTML of div
    var divElements = document.getElementById(divID).innerHTML;
    //Get the HTML of whole page
    var oldPage = document.body.innerHTML;

    //Reset the page's HTML with div's HTML only
    document.body.innerHTML = 
       "<html><head><title></title></head><body>" + 
              divElements + "</body>";

    //Print Page
    window.print();

    //Restore orignal HTML
    document.body.innerHTML = oldPage;
          
}

Upvotes: 8

dors
dors

Reputation: 1152

I think the solutions proposed so far have the following drawbacks:

  1. The CSS media query solutions assume there is only one div to print.
  2. The javascript solutions work only on certain browsers.
  3. Destroying the parent window content and recreating that creates a mess.

I have improved on the solutions above. Here is something that I have tested that works really well with the following benefits.

  1. Works on all the browsers including IE, Chrome, Safari and firefox.
  2. Doesn't destroy and reload the parent window.
  3. Can print any number of DIV's on a page.
  4. Uses HTML templates to avoid error prone string concatenation.

Key Points to note :

  1. Have to have a onload="window.print()" on the newly created window.
  2. Don't call targetwindow.close() or targetwindow.print() from the parent.
  3. Make sure you do targetwindow.document.close() and target.focus()
  4. I'm using jquery but you can do the same technique using plain javascript as well.
  5. You can see this in action here https://math.tools/table/multiplication. You can print each table separately, by clicking on the print button on the box header.

<script id="print-header" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
   <html>
   <header>
       <title>Printing Para {num}</title>
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
       <style>
          body {
            max-width: 300px;
          }
       </style>
   </header>
   <body onload="window.print()">
   <h2>Printing Para {num} </h2>
   <h4>https://math.tools</h4>
</script>
<script id="print-footer" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
    </body>
    </html>
</script>
<script>
$('.printthis').click(function() {
   num = $(this).attr("data-id");
   w = window.open();
   w.document.write(
                   $("#print-header").html().replace("{num}",num)  +
                   $("#para-" + num).html() +
                   $("#print-footer").html() 
                   );
   w.document.close();
   w.focus();
   //w.print(); Don't do this otherwise chrome won't work. Look at the onload on the body of the newly created window.
   ///w.close(); Don't do this otherwise chrome won't work
});
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<a class="btn printthis" data-id="1" href="#" title="Print Para 1"><i class="fa fa-print"></i> Print Para 1</a>
<a class="btn printthis" data-id="2" href="#" title="Print Para 2"><i class="fa fa-print"></i> Print Para 2</a>
  
<p class="para" id="para-1">
  Para 1 : Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
  

<p class="para" id="para-2">
  Para 2 : Lorem 2 ipsum 2 dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>

Upvotes: 13

huston007
huston007

Reputation: 2000

From here https://forums.asp.net/t/1261525.aspx

<html> 
<head>
    <script language="javascript">
        function printdiv(printpage) {
            var headstr = "<html><head><title></title></head><body>";
            var footstr = "</body>";
            var newstr = document.all.item(printpage).innerHTML;
            var oldstr = document.body.innerHTML;
            document.body.innerHTML = headstr + newstr + footstr;
            window.print();
            document.body.innerHTML = oldstr;
            return false;
        }
    </script>

    <title>div print</title>

</head>

<body>
    //HTML Page //Other content you wouldn't like to print
    <input name="b_print" type="button" class="ipt" onClick="printdiv('div_print');" value=" Print ">

    <div id="div_print">
        <h1 style="Color:Red">The Div content which you want to print</h1>
    </div>
    //Other content you wouldn't like to print //Other content you wouldn't like to print
</body>    
</html>

Upvotes: 20

Jhonnatan Eduardo
Jhonnatan Eduardo

Reputation: 369

This should work:

function printDiv(divName) {
     var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
     var originalContents = document.body.innerHTML;
     document.body.innerHTML = printContents;
     window.print();
     document.body.innerHTML = originalContents;
}

Upvotes: 3

Paweł Moskal
Paweł Moskal

Reputation: 1101

Just use PrintJS

let printjs = document.createElement("script");
printjs.src = "https://printjs-4de6.kxcdn.com/print.min.js";
document.body.appendChild(printjs);

printjs.onload = function (){
    printJS('id_of_div_you_want_to_print', 'html');
}

Upvotes: 4

Gary Hayes
Gary Hayes

Reputation: 1788

Using Jquery, simply use this function:

<script>
function printContent(el){
var restorepage = $('body').html();
var printcontent = $('#' + el).clone();
$('body').empty().html(printcontent);
window.print();
$('body').html(restorepage);
}
</script>

Your print button will look like this:

<button id="print" onclick="printContent('id name of your div');" >Print</button>

Edit: If you DO have form data that you need to keep, clone won't copy that, so you'll just need to grab all the form data and replace it after restore as so:

<script>
function printContent(el){
var restorepage = $('body').html();
var printcontent = $('#' + el).clone();
var enteredtext = $('#text').val();
$('body').empty().html(printcontent);
window.print();
$('body').html(restorepage);
$('#text').html(enteredtext);
}
</script>
<textarea id="text"></textarea>

Upvotes: 37

Techie
Techie

Reputation: 45124

function printdiv(printdivname) {
    var headstr = "<html><head><title>Booking Details</title></head><body>";
    var footstr = "</body>";
    var newstr = document.getElementById(printdivname).innerHTML;
    var oldstr = document.body.innerHTML;
    document.body.innerHTML = headstr+newstr+footstr;
    window.print();
    document.body.innerHTML = oldstr;
    return false;
}

This will print the div area you want and set the content back to as it was. printdivname is the div to be printed.

Upvotes: 20

Jazzy
Jazzy

Reputation: 6129

I know this is an old question, but I solved this problem w jQuery. 

function printContents(id) {
    var contents = $("#"+id).html();

    if ($("#printDiv").length == 0) {
      var printDiv = null;
      printDiv = document.createElement('div');
      printDiv.setAttribute('id','printDiv');
      printDiv.setAttribute('class','printable');
      $(printDiv).appendTo('body');
    }

    $("#printDiv").html(contents);

    window.print();

    $("#printDiv").remove();
}

CSS

  @media print {
    .non-printable, .fancybox-outer { display: none; }
    .printable, #printDiv { 
        display: block; 
        font-size: 26pt;
    }
  }

Upvotes: 4

Naren Yellavula
Naren Yellavula

Reputation: 7663

Note: This works with jQuery enabled sites only

It is very simple with this cool trick. It worked for me in Google Chrome browser. Firefox wont allow you to print to PDF without a plugin.

  1. First, open the inspector using (Ctrl + Shift + I) / (Cmd + Option + I).
  2. Type this code in the console:
var jqchild = document.createElement('script');
jqchild.src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jQuery.print/1.5.1/jQuery.print.min.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(jqchild);
$("#myDivWithStyles").print(); // Replace ID with yours
  1. It launches the print dialog. Take a physical print or save it to PDF(in chrome). Done!

The logic is simple. We are creating a new script tag and attaching it in front of closing body tag. We injected a jQuery print extension into the HTML. Change myDivWithStyles with your own Div tag ID. Now it takes cares of preparing a printable virtual window.

Try it on any site. Only caveat is sometimes trickily written CSS can cause missing of styles. But we get the content most of times.

Upvotes: 2

Ivijan Stefan Stipić
Ivijan Stefan Stipić

Reputation: 6668

This is realy old post but here is one my update what I made using correct answer. My solution also use jQuery.

Point of this is to use proper print view, include all stylesheets for the proper formatting and also to be supported in the most browsers.

function PrintElem(elem, title, offset)
{
    // Title constructor
    title = title || $('title').text();
    // Offset for the print
    offset = offset || 0;

    // Loading start
    var dStart = Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000),
        $html = $('html');
        i = 0;

    // Start building HTML
    var HTML = '<html';

    if(typeof ($html.attr('lang')) !== 'undefined') {
        HTML+=' lang=' + $html.attr('lang');
    }

    if(typeof ($html.attr('id')) !== 'undefined') {
        HTML+=' id=' + $html.attr('id');
    }

    if(typeof ($html.attr('xmlns')) !== 'undefined') {
        HTML+=' xmlns=' + $html.attr('xmlns');
    }

    // Close HTML and start build HEAD
    HTML+='><head>';

    // Get all meta tags
    $('head > meta').each(function(){
        var $this = $(this),
            $meta = '<meta';

        if(typeof ($this.attr('charset')) !== 'undefined') {
            $meta+=' charset=' + $this.attr('charset');
        }

        if(typeof ($this.attr('name')) !== 'undefined') {
            $meta+=' name=' + $this.attr('name');
        }

        if(typeof ($this.attr('http-equiv')) !== 'undefined') {
            $meta+=' http-equiv=' + $this.attr('http-equiv');
        }

        if(typeof ($this.attr('content')) !== 'undefined') {
            $meta+=' content=' + $this.attr('content');
        }

        $meta+=' />';

        HTML+= $meta;
        i++;

    }).promise().done(function(){

        // Insert title
        HTML+= '<title>' + title  + '</title>';

        // Let's pickup all CSS files for the formatting
        $('head > link[rel="stylesheet"]').each(function(){
            HTML+= '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' + $(this).attr('href') + '" />';
            i++;
        }).promise().done(function(){
            // Print setup
            HTML+= '<style>body{display:none;}@media print{body{display:block;}}</style>';

            // Finish HTML
            HTML+= '</head><body>';
            HTML+= '<h1 class="text-center mb-3">' + title  + '</h1>';
            HTML+= elem.html();
            HTML+= '</body></html>';

            // Open new window
            var printWindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=' + $(window).height() + ',width=' + $(window).width());
            // Append new window HTML
            printWindow.document.write(HTML);

            printWindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
            printWindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/
console.log(printWindow.document);
            /* Make sure that page is loaded correctly */
            $(printWindow).on('load', function(){                   
                setTimeout(function(){
                    // Open print
                    printWindow.print();

                    // Close on print
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        printWindow.close();
                        return true;
                    }, 3);

                }, (Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000) - dStart)+i+offset);
            });
        });
    });
}

Later you simple need something like this:

$(document).on('click', '.some-print', function() {
    PrintElem($(this), 'My Print Title');
    return false;
});

Try it.

Upvotes: 0

Tschallacka
Tschallacka

Reputation: 28712

The below code copies all relevant nodes that are targeted by the query selector, copies over their styles as seen on screen, since many parent elements used for targeting the css selectors will be missing. This causes a bit of lag if there are a lot of child nodes with a lot of styles.

Ideally you'd have a print style sheet ready, but this is for use cases where there's no print style sheet to be inserted and you wish to print as seen on screen.

If you copy the below items in the browser console on this page it will print all the code snippets on this page.

+function() {
    /**
     * copied from  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19784064/set-javascript-computed-style-from-one-element-to-another
     * @author Adi Darachi https://stackoverflow.com/users/2318881/adi-darachi
     */
    var copyComputedStyle = function(from,to){
        var computed_style_object = false;
        //trying to figure out which style object we need to use depense on the browser support
        //so we try until we have one
        computed_style_object = from.currentStyle || document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(from,null);

        //if the browser dose not support both methods we will return null
        if(!computed_style_object) return null;

            var stylePropertyValid = function(name,value){
                        //checking that the value is not a undefined
                return typeof value !== 'undefined' &&
                        //checking that the value is not a object
                        typeof value !== 'object' &&
                        //checking that the value is not a function
                        typeof value !== 'function' &&
                        //checking that we dosent have empty string
                        value.length > 0 &&
                        //checking that the property is not int index ( happens on some browser
                        value != parseInt(value)

            };

        //we iterating the computed style object and compy the style props and the values
        for(property in computed_style_object)
        {
            //checking if the property and value we get are valid sinse browser have different implementations
                if(stylePropertyValid(property,computed_style_object[property]))
                {
                    //applying the style property to the target element
                        to.style[property] = computed_style_object[property];

                }   
        }   

    };


    // Copy over all relevant styles to preserve styling, work the way down the children tree.
    var buildChild = function(masterList, childList) {
        for(c=0; c<masterList.length; c++) {
           var master = masterList[c];
           var child = childList[c];
           copyComputedStyle(master, child);
           if(master.children && master.children.length > 0) {
               buildChild(master.children, child.children);
           }
        }
    }

    /** select elements to print with query selector **/
    var printSelection = function(querySelector) {
        // Create an iframe to make sure everything is clean and ordered.
        var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
        // Give it enough dimension so you can visually check when modifying.
        iframe.width = document.width;
        iframe.height = document.height;
        // Add it to the current document to be sure it has the internal objects set up.
        document.body.append(iframe);

        var nodes = document.querySelectorAll(querySelector);
        if(!nodes || nodes.length == 0) {
           console.error('Printing Faillure: Nothing to print. Please check your querySelector');
           return;
        }

        for(i=0; i < nodes.length; i++) {

            // Get the node you wish to print.
            var origNode = nodes[i];

            // Clone it and all it's children
            var node = origNode.cloneNode(true);

            // Copy the base style.
            copyComputedStyle(origNode, node);

            if(origNode.children && origNode.children.length > 0) {
                buildChild(origNode.children, node.children);
            }

            // Add the styled clone to the iframe. using contentWindow.document since it seems the be the most widely supported version.

            iframe.contentWindow.document.body.append(node);
        }
        // Print the window
        iframe.contentWindow.print();

        // Give the browser a second to gather the data then remove the iframe.
        window.setTimeout(function() {iframe.parentNode.removeChild(iframe)}, 1000);
    }
window.printSelection = printSelection;
}();
printSelection('.default.prettyprint.prettyprinted')

Upvotes: 0

Stefan Norberg
Stefan Norberg

Reputation: 1225

If you want to have all the styles from the original document (including inline styles) you can use this approach.

  1. Copy the complete document
  2. Replace the body with the element your want to print.

Implementation:

class PrintUtil {
  static printDiv(elementId) {
    let printElement = document.getElementById(elementId);
    var printWindow = window.open('', 'PRINT');
    printWindow.document.write(document.documentElement.innerHTML);
    setTimeout(() => { // Needed for large documents
      printWindow.document.body.style.margin = '0 0';
      printWindow.document.body.innerHTML = printElement.outerHTML;
      printWindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
      printWindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/
      printWindow.print();
      printWindow.close();
    }, 1000)
  }   
}

Upvotes: 10

Bill Paetzke
Bill Paetzke

Reputation: 13572

Slight changes over earlier version - tested on CHROME

function PrintElem(elem)
{
    var mywindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=400,width=600');

    mywindow.document.write('<html><head><title>' + document.title  + '</title>');
    mywindow.document.write('</head><body >');
    mywindow.document.write('<h1>' + document.title  + '</h1>');
    mywindow.document.write(document.getElementById(elem).innerHTML);
    mywindow.document.write('</body></html>');

    mywindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
    mywindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/

    mywindow.print();
    mywindow.close();

    return true;
}

Upvotes: 641

MrMesees
MrMesees

Reputation: 1603

I modified @BillPaetski answer to use querySelector, add optional CSS, remove the forced H1 tag and make title optionally specified or pulled from window. It also doesn't auto-print any more and exposes internals so they can be switched out in wrapper function or as you like.

The only two private vars are tmpWindow and tmpDoc although I believe title, css and elem access may vary it should be assumed all function arguments are private.

Code: 
function PrintElem(elem, title, css) {
    var tmpWindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=400,width=600');
    var tmpDoc = tmpWindow.document;

    title = title || document.title;
    css = css || "";

    this.setTitle = function(newTitle) {
        title = newTitle || document.title;
    };

    this.setCSS = function(newCSS) {
        css = newCSS || "";
    };

    this.basicHtml5 = function(innerHTML) {
        return '<!doctype html><html>'+(innerHTML || "")+'</html>';
    };

    this.htmlHead = function(innerHTML) {
        return '<head>'+(innerHTML || "")+'</head>';
    };

    this.htmlTitle = function(title) {
        return '<title>'+(title || "")+'</title>';
    };

    this.styleTag = function(innerHTML) {
        return '<style>'+(innerHTML || "")+'</style>';
    };

    this.htmlBody = function(innerHTML) {
        return '<body>'+(innerHTML || "")+'</body>';
    };

    this.build = function() {
        tmpDoc.write(
            this.basicHtml5(
                this.htmlHead(
                    this.htmlTitle(title) + this.styleTag(css)
                ) + this.htmlBody(
                    document.querySelector(elem).innerHTML
                )
            )
        );
        tmpDoc.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
    };

    this.print = function() {
        tmpWindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/
        tmpWindow.print();
        tmpWindow.close();
    };

    this.build();
    return this;
}
Usage: 
DOMPrinter = PrintElem('#app-container');
DOMPrinter.print();

Upvotes: 1

live-love
live-love

Reputation: 52366

The accepted solution wasn't working. Chrome was printing a blank page because it wasn't loading the image in time. This approach works:

Edit: It appears the accepted solution was modified after my post. Why the downvote? This solution works as well.

    function printDiv(divName) {

        var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
        w = window.open();

        w.document.write(printContents);
        w.document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript">' + 'window.onload = function() { window.print(); window.close(); };' + '</sc' + 'ript>');

        w.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
        w.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10

        return true;
    }

Upvotes: 9

Gaurav
Gaurav

Reputation: 849

Created something generic to use on any HTML element 

HTMLElement.prototype.printMe = printMe;
function printMe(query){             
     var myframe = document.createElement('IFRAME');
     myframe.domain = document.domain;
     myframe.style.position = "absolute";
     myframe.style.top = "-10000px";
     document.body.appendChild(myframe);
     myframe.contentDocument.write(this.innerHTML) ;
     setTimeout(function(){
        myframe.focus();
        myframe.contentWindow.print();
        myframe.parentNode.removeChild(myframe) ;// remove frame
     },3000); // wait for images to load inside iframe
     window.focus();
}
//usage
document.getElementById('xyz').printMe();
document.getElementsByClassName('xyz')[0].printMe();

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 2824

i used Bill Paetzke answer to print a div contain images but it didn't work with google chrome

i just needed to add this line myWindow.onload=function(){ to make it work and here is the full code

<html>
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.1.min.js"> </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function PrintElem(elem) {
            Popup($(elem).html());
        }

        function Popup(data) {
            var myWindow = window.open('', 'my div', 'height=400,width=600');
            myWindow.document.write('<html><head><title>my div</title>');
            /*optional stylesheet*/ //myWindow.document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css" type="text/css" />');
            myWindow.document.write('</head><body >');
            myWindow.document.write(data);
            myWindow.document.write('</body></html>');
            myWindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10

            myWindow.onload=function(){ // necessary if the div contain images

                myWindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10
                myWindow.print();
                myWindow.close();
            };
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv">
        This will be printed.
        <img src="image.jpg"/>
    </div>
    <div>
        This will not be printed.
    </div>
    <div id="anotherDiv">
        Nor will this.
    </div>
    <input type="button" value="Print Div" onclick="PrintElem('#myDiv')" />
</body>
</html>

also if someone just need to print a div with id he doesn't need to load jquery

here is pure javascript code to do this

<html>
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function PrintDiv(id) {
            var data=document.getElementById(id).innerHTML;
            var myWindow = window.open('', 'my div', 'height=400,width=600');
            myWindow.document.write('<html><head><title>my div</title>');
            /*optional stylesheet*/ //myWindow.document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css" type="text/css" />');
            myWindow.document.write('</head><body >');
            myWindow.document.write(data);
            myWindow.document.write('</body></html>');
            myWindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10

            myWindow.onload=function(){ // necessary if the div contain images

                myWindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10
                myWindow.print();
                myWindow.close();
            };
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv">
        This will be printed.
        <img src="image.jpg"/>
    </div>
    <div>
        This will not be printed.
    </div>
    <div id="anotherDiv">
        Nor will this.
    </div>
    <input type="button" value="Print Div" onclick="PrintDiv('myDiv')" />
</body>
</html>

i hope this can help someone

Upvotes: 23

kofifus
kofifus

Reputation: 19276

Here is an IFrame solution that works for IE and Chrome:

function printHTML(htmlString) {
    var newIframe = document.createElement('iframe');
    newIframe.width = '1px';
    newIframe.height = '1px';
    newIframe.src = 'about:blank';

    // for IE wait for the IFrame to load so we can access contentWindow.document.body
    newIframe.onload = function() {
        var script_tag = newIframe.contentWindow.document.createElement("script");
        script_tag.type = "text/javascript";
        var script = newIframe.contentWindow.document.createTextNode('function Print(){ window.focus(); window.print(); }');
        script_tag.appendChild(script);

        newIframe.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = htmlString;
        newIframe.contentWindow.document.body.appendChild(script_tag);

        // for chrome, a timeout for loading large amounts of content
        setTimeout(function() {
            newIframe.contentWindow.Print();
            newIframe.contentWindow.document.body.removeChild(script_tag);
            newIframe.parentElement.removeChild(newIframe);
        }, 200);
    };
    document.body.appendChild(newIframe);
}

Upvotes: 2

arslan
arslan

Reputation: 585

Although @BC answer was the best to print a single page.

But To print multiple pages of A4 size at same time with ctrl+P following solution may help. 

@media print{
html *{
    height:0px!important;
    width:0px !important;
    margin: 0px !important;
    padding: 0px !important;
    min-height: 0px !important;
    line-height: 0px !important;
    overflow: visible !important;
    visibility: hidden ;


}


/*assing myPagesClass to every div you want to print on single separate A4 page*/

 body .myPagesClass {
    z-index: 100 !important;
    visibility: visible !important;
    position: relative !important;
    display: block !important;
    background-color: lightgray !important;
    height: 297mm !important;
    width: 211mm !important;
    position: relative !important;

    padding: 0px;
    top: 0 !important;
    left: 0 !important;
    margin: 0 !important;
    orphans: 0!important;
    widows: 0!important;
    overflow: visible !important;
    page-break-after: always;

}
@page{
    size: A4;
    margin: 0mm ;
    orphans: 0!important;
    widows: 0!important;
}}

Upvotes: 3

Goran Jakovljevic
Goran Jakovljevic

Reputation: 2820

Same as best answer, just in case you need to print image as i did:

In case you want to print image:

function printElem(elem)
    {
        Popup(jQuery(elem).attr('src'));
    }

    function Popup(data) 
    {
        var mywindow = window.open('', 'my div', 'height=400,width=600');
        mywindow.document.write('<html><head><title>my div</title>');
        mywindow.document.write('</head><body >');
        mywindow.document.write('<img src="'+data+'" />');
        mywindow.document.write('</body></html>');

        mywindow.print();
        mywindow.close();

        return true;
    }

Upvotes: -1

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 7682

I authored a plugin to address this scenario. I was unhappy with the plugins out there, and set out to make something more extensive/configurable.

https://github.com/jasonday/printThis

Upvotes: 12

mirk
mirk

Reputation: 11

In Opera, try:

    print_win.document.write('</body></html>');
    print_win.document.close(); // This bit is important
    print_win.print();
    print_win.close();

Upvotes: 1

karaxuna
karaxuna

Reputation: 26930

Here is my jquery print plugin

(function ($) {

$.fn.printme = function () {
    return this.each(function () {
        var container = $(this);

        var hidden_IFrame = $('<iframe></iframe>').attr({
            width: '1px',
            height: '1px',
            display: 'none'
        }).appendTo(container);

        var myIframe = hidden_IFrame.get(0);

        var script_tag = myIframe.contentWindow.document.createElement("script");
        script_tag.type = "text/javascript";
        script = myIframe.contentWindow.document.createTextNode('function Print(){ window.print(); }');
        script_tag.appendChild(script);

        myIframe.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = container.html();
        myIframe.contentWindow.document.body.appendChild(script_tag);

        myIframe.contentWindow.Print();
        hidden_IFrame.remove();

    });
};
})(jQuery);

Upvotes: 2

BC.
BC.

Reputation: 24908

I think there is a better solution. Make your div to print cover the entire document, but only when it's printed:

@media print {
    .myDivToPrint {
        background-color: white;
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        position: fixed;
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 15px;
        font-size: 14px;
        line-height: 18px;
    }
}

Upvotes: 218

Pointy
Pointy

Reputation: 413682

  • Open a new window
  • Open the document object of the new window and write into it a simple document containing nothing but the div you've got and necessary html header etc - you may also want to have the document pull in a stylesheet, depending on your content is
  • Put a script in the new page to call window.print()
  • Trigger the script

Upvotes: 2

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