Printing a page

**higginbt** · 05-31-2006, 05:44 AM

Hi guys,

I have a ASP site where a user will use various forms to fill in small sections of a larger form. When this larger form is submitted. It will generate a report, the layout of which will differ slightly depending on the information entered

i.e it could be layout 1,2,3 or 4

When the user submits the form or presses the button i want the correct report to automatically be printed.

i know the code to figure out what layout to use. I just need help on the printing of the report.

I'm guess i could do:
press button
load report in window
print window.

but i would like the report to print with out the user having to see it on the screen first. is this possible?

**chrishirst** · 05-31-2006, 06:32 AM

It would have to be rendered first

No immediate way I can think of to print without the user seeing it without causing some security alerts to popup

**funkdaddu** · 06-01-2006, 12:21 PM

You could use CSS to hide the form on a page, then when it is printed, use a print-only stylesheet to show the info. So the screen will not show the data, but when it is printed it would.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<title>Untitled Page</title>
		<style type="text/css" media="screen"><!--
.printInfo {
	display: none
	}
	
.screenInfo {
	display: block
	}

--></style>

		<style type="text/css" media="print"><!--
.printInfo {
	display: block
	}

.screenInfo {
	display: none
	}

--></style>
	</head>

	<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
		<div class="screenInfo">
			<h1>This Text is for the Screen only</h1>
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			<button name="buttonName" type="button" onclick="window.print();">Print this Page!</button>
		</div>
		<div class="printInfo">
			<h1>This Text is to be Printed only</h1>
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		</div>
	</body>

</html>