I'm really not all that concerned with supporting IE on the mac.  I'm fine with telling mac users to ditch IE.  Google maps seems to do exactly what I want, but I haven't dissected it to see how they accomplished it... perhaps it's time for that :(



On 5/9/06, Jaimz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well, if you want to be safe to think that your page is compatible with
all used browsers then you shouldn't force print. IE on mac doesn't
support window.print();

you could just show the page and let them print it.

otherwise i'd say the iframe is your best bet ;)

-Jaimz

Jim Geurts wrote:
> Sorry about that.  I want to print a separate page when the user
> clicks a button/span, without navigating the user to that page.
>
>
> On 5/9/06, *Jaimz* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     i'm kinda lost about what your trying to accomplish, if your
>     trying to
>     print a page's content in a printer friendly form you can use CSS
>     for that.
>
>     -Jaimz
>
>     Jim Geurts wrote:
>     > Does anyone know of a cross browser solution to print a page/url
>     after
>     > a user clicks a button?
>     >
>     > Currently, I'm using a "hidden" iframe to do my bidding.  But
>     from my
>     > experience, IE requires that the iframe's src attribute be set
>     > initially to the url, in order for the page to open properly.  I
>     > wasn't able to add the iframe to the page dynamically, either.
>     >
>     > So this doesn't work with IE, but it does with Firefox:
>     >
>     > <html>
>     >  <head>
>     >   <script language="_javascript_" type="text/_javascript_">
>     >    function PrintAPage() {
>     >      $('printer').src = '';
>     >    }
>     >   </script>
>     >  </head>
>     >  <body>
>     >
>     >   <span a page</span>
>     >
>     >    <iframe id="printer" height="1" width="1" ></iframe>
>     > </body>
>     > </html>
>     >
>     >
>     > _______________
>     >
>     > As a side point, someprintpage.html would have this bit of code
>     on it:
>     >
>     > <html>
>     >  <head>
>     >         <script language="_javascript_" type="text/_javascript_">
>     >             window.focus();
>     >             window.print();
>     >         </script>
>     >  </head>
>     >  <body>
>     >  ...
>     >  </body>
>     > </html>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks for any help
>     >
>     > Jim
>     >
>     >
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>     > Bia Creations, LLC
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>     > 410-493-9385
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