I've just done the same thing - although it's nothing to do with Struts
var a = window.open('','','width=500,height=400');
a.document.open("text/html");
a.document.write(document.getElementById('receipt').innerHTML);
a.document.close();
a.print();
a.close();
Basically, a popup is opened, the content is pulled from a div in the
parent window with an ID called 'receipt' and that's what gets printed,
then the popup is closed.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Guojun Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:40 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Programming help for a "print" function
Hi,
I am new to struts and using Struts 1.2.9 (old version, but not my
decision). I have a view page in jsp set up to display a report I
generated on-fly. I have use setRequestAtrribute() to put report (
plain text string with only "\n" line-break) as a attribute in the
action and get it from the jsp page and show it in a "textarea". I
put it this way for user to copy and paste the content in textarea
into a text editor easily.
Now we want to put a print link/button for the report. I have a few
questions.
1 Javascript only has "window.print()" which print the whole window.
Can it print things only in the textarea?
2 If I cannot, I probably need to pop-up a new window with a
print-friendly page and invoke "window.print()" there. Is that the
correct way to do?
3. The report generating is expensive and it has a generating time in
the report. So I do not wan to generate it again. I wan to pass it
into the print-page instead. how can I pass the report from the
original page to the pop-up print page? Do I have to change the
report into "session" attribute?
4. Since the plain text spring with line-break "\n" will not show up
correctly in the browser, I need to change the report and put the
format as "<br/>". So I need to have two versions report generated.
Is that the good way to go? Or maybe I can generate one xml file and
apply different css?
I am sorry, the questions are not directly related to struts. But I
am not sure whether struts provide some better mechanism to accomplish
this. I am new to the server-side programing. Can anyone point a
good forum or usenet where I can get some help for subject like these?
Thanks.
Sincerely
Zhu, Guojun
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