This doesn't help when someone chooses print from the browser/os.
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Brandon Aaron
On 8/1/07, Alexandre Plennevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> hello friends!
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> question: is it possible to catch the print event via javascript/ jquery?
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> AFAIK, only IE has built-in capabilities :
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> window.onbeforeprint
> window.onafterprint
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> I did a quick test, and in fact it is possible to overwrite the window.print
> function:
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> window.print = function(o){alert("hi");};
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> wouldn't it be possible to therefore to include a "print" event to jquery,
> which overwrite the default print and allows to perform dom manips before
> printing?
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> i'm asking this because i change the content of a span element so as to only
> show it via a cluetip.
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> That's working fine, except that when printing the document, it prints the
> html source after DOM manips ("more info") instead of before modification of
> the DOM (address, city, postcode information).
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> $('span.moreInfoLink').text('more info').cluetip();
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> therefore, i would have loved to be able to disable this on a print() event...
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> thanks!
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> Alexandre
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