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WartookMan
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A couple of options with a couple of problems.
1. The first way is to launch a popup window, and write the contents of the textarea to the window as plain text ("text/plain"). Unfortunately, the browser will treat a really long paragraph that is "wrapped" by the textarea, as a really long line... and the scroll bar will appear at the bottom of the window. Not sure if this is really a problem, since the printer may wrap it for you.
And the code:
2. Write the contents out into the "body" of a new window as HTML ("html/text"). Unfortunately, any HTML tags you may have inserted will be interpretted by the browser. Hence a [ignore][/ignore] will be treated as the start of italics... just like Tek-Tips does. ;-)
3. **RECOMMENDED METHOD** Create a new textarea and write the contents directly into the textarea... creating a direct one-to-one mapping. You'll have to write out the HTML document, a form, and the textarea itself (including it's attributes). And the code:
Hope this helps.
Pete.
Web Developer & Aptrix / Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM) Specialist
w: e: Pete.Raleigh(at)lclimited.co.uk
1. The first way is to launch a popup window, and write the contents of the textarea to the window as plain text ("text/plain"). Unfortunately, the browser will treat a really long paragraph that is "wrapped" by the textarea, as a really long line... and the scroll bar will appear at the bottom of the window. Not sure if this is really a problem, since the printer may wrap it for you.
And the code:
Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function printTextArea() {
printWin = window.open("about:blank","_blank","width=760,height=500");
printWin.document.open("text/plain");
var val=document.theForm.textmsg.value;
printWin.document.write(val);
printWin.document.close();
if(window.print) printWin.print();
else printWin.alert("Use the menu to print the page or CTRL-P");
}
</script>
<form name="theForm">
<textarea name="textmsg" cols="50" rows="30"></textarea>
<input value="Print" type="button" onclick="printTextArea()">
</form>2. Write the contents out into the "body" of a new window as HTML ("html/text"). Unfortunately, any HTML tags you may have inserted will be interpretted by the browser. Hence a [ignore][/ignore] will be treated as the start of italics... just like Tek-Tips does. ;-)
3. **RECOMMENDED METHOD** Create a new textarea and write the contents directly into the textarea... creating a direct one-to-one mapping. You'll have to write out the HTML document, a form, and the textarea itself (including it's attributes). And the code:
Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function printTextArea(objname) {
printWin = window.open("about:blank","_blank","width=760,height=500");
printWin.document.open("html/text");
var theObj=document.theForm[objname];
var newdoc="<html><body><form><textarea ";
newdoc+="cols=\"" + theObj.cols + "\" rows=\"" + theObj.rows + "\">";
newdoc+=theObj.value+"</textarea></form></body></html>";
printWin.document.write(newdoc);
printWin.document.close();
if(window.print) printWin.print();
else printWin.alert("Use the menu to print the page or CTRL-P");
}
</script>
<form name="theForm">
<textarea name="textmsg" cols="50" rows="30"></textarea>
<input value="Print" type="button" onclick="printTextArea('textmsg')">
</form>Hope this helps.
Pete.
Web Developer & Aptrix / Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM) Specialist
w: e: Pete.Raleigh(at)lclimited.co.uk
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Hey thanks alot pete:
I saw something like this before, looks pretty easy. Too bad we can't make extended languages like in dos to add more commands.
Anyway,
thanks alot for taking your time out to getme that example and explaing it so well, I always appreciate help.
regards
co
I saw something like this before, looks pretty easy. Too bad we can't make extended languages like in dos to add more commands.
Anyway,
thanks alot for taking your time out to getme that example and explaing it so well, I always appreciate help.
regards
co
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