IE print templates

Re: ah, **THOSE** headers/footers.

That looks good. Ta SP. Seen mention of scriptx but not a decent example of use. Will investigate tomorrow. Looking at this problem all day and my brain hurts. Time for vodka.


Thursday
That works a treat! Thanks very much sp! for yet another bit of good advice.

ah, **THOSE** headers/footers.

oops. sorry zog. can't do that from clientside script at the moment without that clunky tech you mentioned - templates. however, there is a freeb activex control you can use which easily does the job...

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html
head

script language="Javascript"!--
function doprint() {
//save existing user's info
var h = factory.printing.header;
var f = factory.printing.footer;
//hide the button
document.all("printbtn").style.visibility = 'hidden';
//set header and footer to blank
factory.printing.header = "";
factory.printing.footer = "";
//print page without prompt
factory.DoPrint(false);
//restore user's info
factory.printing.header = h;
factory.printing.footer = f;
//show the print button
document.all("printbtn").style.visibility = 'visible';
}
//--/script

/head

body
my test page.
object id=factory style="display:none"
classid="clsid:1663ed61-23eb-11d2-b92f-008048fdd814" viewastext
codebase="www.meadroid.com/scriptx/...6,1,431,8"
/object
brbr
div id="printbtn"input name=idPrint type=button value="Print the letter"
onclick="doprint()"/div

/body
/html


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try that - i've stripped out all the html tagends.

Re: but

That's wierd. Just tried again scotty. Checked js function only contains

window.print();

and nowt else. And it prints headers/footers. I wonder if you happen to have blank values in the registry? That's where it gets the defaults from apparently.


PS
That does seem to be it. Opened any old page in IE, selected page setup, cleared header and footer strings, closed and tried window.print() again - no hdrs/ftrs. Not really a viable solution unfortunately.

PPS
From VB supposed to be able to use iWebBrowser2.exewb with third param containing necessary info. But how to put a iWebBrowser2 object in the project I have no idea. It's defined in same dll/oca asWebBrowser so should be available in controls.

PPPS
Pardon oh?

Re: but

Oy, you nose in the air bods, visual basics yu tool. Yeh!

but

the javascript only prints out the screen - like a screen dump. i use it myself quite a lot...

Re: using

Ta for your time SP, but no can't get that to work, it prints headers and footers. As I say, the header/footer are added on by the IE dll, they are not anything in the original html so hiding anything in it is not going to make a difference.

using

the javascript prints out the doc without any header stuff you mention. using the style, assigned to any bits you want not printed, such as

table style=hidden
td style=hidden
span style=hidden

will cause those elements not to be printed out.

so, just give your user a button to click that runs the javascript function.

Re: ...

Sorry SP not quite with you on 1st bit. I assume that's shorthand not actual syntax ie you mean summit like:

£STYLE type="text/css" media="print"£
span {visibility:hidden}
£/STYLE£
and stick hidden bits in a span?

How does that remove headers/footers? Maybe we are at cross purposes here, I mean the title, page 1 of 1 etc that IE sticks on when it prints, not anything actually on the HTML page.

...

style =
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@media print {
.hidden { display: none }
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javascript
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function screenPrint()
{
document.body.style.zoom = '80%';
window.print();
document.body.style.zoom = '100%';
}
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


then use "span class='hidden'" etc

...

you get rid of headers and footers by using style as well.....

if you

are automating internet exploer (?) then it should be straightforward.

Re: this is very simple

Ta SP. Just changing styles seems like a much easier option for the scaling, no probs with that. However, no way to get rid of/modify headers and footers from jscript is there?

These templates I mentioned seem like a non starter as am using webbrowser in VB and it seems, according to MS, that there is no mechanism for using from a VB app.

One really would have thought these days that there was a decent formal webbrowser method for formatting and scaling printout from a bog standard HTML page. Even the page setup in IE is total rubbish.

this is very simple

with javascript and appropriate styles - let me know if you need more.

Anyone ever used the MS IE print templates and has a simple sample of how to call print preview? Looked at stuff on MS and it seems like pages of incomprehensible earwig.

Basically I just want to print an HTML page without all that default header and footer stuff and also scale it so it fits on the printed page.

Much ta for any ideas.