web page printing

[prasad agarwal]

Hi all,..

Well i have a question,.. i have a JSP page with a print button which does what is expected. The thing that is troubling me is: in the JSP page we have a textarea

<textarea rows="8" name="x" cols="100" style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold"><%= details.getNotes().trim() %></textarea>   

Sometimes the content is very huge that everything will not be visible and we get a scrollbar ,.. no problem here.. but what we want is when we take a print-out, we actually want everything inside the <textarea> to be printed rather than what is visible...

I really apprecaite your help on this very much
I guess this can be achieved thru CSS... but i'm not that good at it.

Thanks again

[ March 06, 2007: Message edited by: prasad agarwal ]

[ March 06, 2007: Message edited by: prasad agarwal ]
[ March 06, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Eric Pascarello]

hmmmm

Not positive it will work in all browsers, but worth a shot:

<script>
  window.onbeforeprint = function(){
  document.getElementById("div1").innerHTML = document.getElementById("ta1").value;
    document.getElementById("div1").style.display = "block";
    document.getElementById("ta1").style.display = "none";
  }
  window.onafterprint = function(){
    document.getElementById("div1").style.display = "none";
    document.getElementById("ta1").style.display = "inline";
  }
</script>
<textarea id="ta1"></textarea>
<div id="div1" style="display:none"></div>

Eric

[prasad agarwal]

Hi Eric Pascarello,

Thanks a lot man,.. you always help me when it comes to CSS and javascript
i mean it ,.. always.. Appreciate


I bought your book "Ajax in Action"; I started the book but got busy with the project ,.. so it's been a while,...
I will get serious and try to finish the book,... in the mean time if i have questions in the book, i can ask you

Cheers

[Eric Pascarello]

Did that code actually work? I work that as a whim without testing. I thought I would take a shot in the dark! lol

And if you have questions on the book, feel free to ask here or on Manning's forums.

Eric

[prasad agarwal]

Yeah it did work