[Javascript] Calling the Printer from a Web Page

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:17:03 +0000

Some people reported that clicking doesn’t respond. I’ve tested this on both Chrome and IE and it works:

I think the likely reason is that jQuery was not included. I’ve now added jQuery from a CDN and updated the code to:

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<html>
<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <script src="https://cdn.bootcss.com/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <title></title>
</head>
<body>
 <div id='div1'>Put the content to print here</div>
 <div id="div2">div2 content</div>
 <a href="javascript:printHTML('#div1')" target="_self">Print</a>
 <script language="javascript">
 function printHTML(page) {
 var bodyHTML = window.document.body.innerHTML;
 window.document.body.innerHTML = $(page).html();
 window.print();
 window.document.body.innerHTML = bodyHTML;
 }
 </script>
</body>
</html>

Original Javascript code, requires jQuery:

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function printHTML(page) {
 var bodyHTML = window.document.body.innerHTML;
 window.document.body.innerHTML = $(page).html();
 window.print();
 window.document.body.innerHTML = bodyHTML;
}

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[Javascript] Calling the Printer from a Web Page