Thank you very much. That works for me. I changed the media type to
"text/plain" and forward what is in the textarea directly and it works
fine in IE and firefox. (some format problems in Opera though, need
to check safari later). Have a great day!
sincerely
Zhu, Guojun
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Gundersen, Richard
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> 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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