Specialized printing from a JSP page

[Mora Yung]

Hi everybody.

I have a JSP page with some controls and a Print button. What I want it to do is when I click the Print button, the print dialog box would show. I would choose what printer to to send this job to. But when I press the button to start the printing, I don't want to print the "screenshot" of the page. Instead I want to send the contents of controls in a text format.

For example, the JSP page would have a text box with a value of "Hello World". So what I would like is to send just the text "Hello World" to the print queue.

Is this possible? How would I override the data that gets sent to the printer?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Dickson

[Bear Bibeault]

You would have your print button submit a new request that returns the data in the format you desire. Javascript on the 'print page' could initiate the print sequence. If you don't want a new page to pop up, you could submit this to a hidden iframe on the original page and no one would be the wiser.