print ?

lm489

is it possible for to print certain body of the page as the user doesn't want navigation and only wants to print body content,

i did try to print with javascript code below but it prints the whole page

if (window.print) {
document.write('<form action="0">'
+ '<input type=button name=print value="Print This Page" '
+ 'onClick="javascript&colon;window.print()"></form>');
}

is there anyway we could only print body content

Gregg Faus

If you are trying to make this cross browser compatible then I wouldn't suggest this approach. A cross browser approach would use a separate printable HTML document.

To do this I use a server-side script and strip out all text except the body content.

This can be achieved by putting starting and ending HTML comments like so:

<!-- BEGIN CONTENT -->
printable content is here
<!-- END CONTENT -->

Then use these tags to correctly find the text that is printable and parse it out.

If you need such a script I created one for ASP. Not sure what your web server environment is.

If this page is templated, another approach would be to create two documents when the DCR is generated. But this approach creates double the amount of content.

gf