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print target javascript

Is there anyway to access the print target function from IE (eg print_target("http://www.x.com/file.doc") for example so that when a user clicks on an item they are offered the ability to print it?

Michel Plungjan

Huh? What is a print_target?

fox_statton

ASKER

Sorry,
You know in IE when your right click on a link it gives you the option to print target

Michel Plungjan

Yeeees? And when do you want to access that, how and why?

Do you mean this?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>print using link rel=alternate</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="test1.txt" media="print">
<script>
/* Print alternate prints using link
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Michel Plungjan "javascripts at planet.nl" */
obj = document.getElementsByTagName('LINK');
function changePrint(url) {
if (url) obj[0].href=url;
window.print();
return false;
}

</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="test1.txt"
onClick="return changePrint('test1.txt')">print test1.txt</a><br>

<a href="test2.html"
onClick="return changePrint('test2.html')">print test2.html</a>

<div id="msgDiv"></div>
<script>
t="";
for (i in obj[0]) t+= '\n'+i+':'+obj[0][i]
document.getElementById('msgDiv').innerHTML='<pre>'+t+'</pre>'

</script>
</body>
</html>

fox_statton

ASKER

Hi,
Yes that seems to work with normal files (like html pages etc), but it doesnt work with PDFs, any ideas?

Thanks

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fox_statton

ASKER

yup, I was trying it with files on a webserver (but the html page was on my local machine)