Managing a pop window for printing

awingnut · May 17, 2006

I created a popup window for printing some textarea information and have 2 problems. The function I use is:

Code:

function startFax(theForm) {
	newwindow=window.open("","printwin","height=450,width=600");
	newwindow.document.write("<body onload='window.focus();window.print()'>"+theForm.faxdata.value+"</body>");
	newwindow.document.close();
}

1) I'd like to not have the new window displayed (I can live with it if hiding it is not possible).
2) The window is not closing after the print dialog completes.

Can someone help me with this? TIA.

mbrooks · May 17, 2006

Code:

newwindow.close();

M. Brooks

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awingnut · May 17, 2006

Thanks but I'm not sure what happened. That certainly closed the window but now my print dialog does not come up.

awingnut · May 17, 2006

Ah, ha! Your suggestion was an addition not a replacement, right? Using both closes, worked. Thanks.

kaht · May 17, 2006

It's closing the window before it even gets a chance to print.

There is potentially a VERY easy way to solve this. It depends on one factor:

Will you ever need to allow them to print out the entire page, or is it acceptible to print out ONLY the textarea EVERY time the page is printed? [small](even if they go thru the print properties in the browser: File > Print)[/small]

-kaht

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