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Printing from inside the iframe

Erindesign
10-29-2008, 06:17 PM
I have an iframe which needs to be printed. What is the proper way of printing the inside content of the iframe, through a link Inside this iframe?

Thx,
Erind
dustywb
10-30-2008, 09:18 AM
I would assume that you'd have to do it from inside the iframe. you could just add:
<a href="javascript:window.print()">Print Me</a>
to the iframes page and that should work
itsallkizza
10-30-2008, 03:12 PM
I tried this really fast because I was interested to see if you could print from outside the iframe:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function printFrame(n)
{
if (document.getElementById(n).print) document.getElementById(n).print();
else if (window.frames[n].print) window.frames[n].print();
else if (top.frames[n].print) top.frames[n].print();
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body>

<a href="javascript:printFrame('my_iframe')">Print iframe</a>
<br /><br />
<iframe name="my_iframe" id="my_iframe" src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>

</body>
</html>


What I found:
- the DOM object reference doesn't contain a print function
- the frames array reference does contain a print function, but I get "Access Denied" in IE and "Permission Denied" in FF, which makes sense

Looks like you'll need to add the link to the iframed page itself (as dusty suggested).

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