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link to File/Pagesetup

By the inclusion of the following tag I can go directly to the print routine

<a href="#" onClick="window.self.print(); return false;">Print</a>

Is it possible to go to File > Page Setup instead?

I tried <a href="#" onClick="window.self.setup(); return false;">Print</a>
and
<a href="#" onClick="window.self.pagesetup(); return false;">Print</a>

without success.

Any ideas please?

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Rouchie

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johnhardy

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Thanks I will have a good ;look through that, looks very interesting.

I just wanted to allow a quick change of headers and footers.

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johnhardy

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Thanks,

I will come back to this soon

John

Rouchie

Good follow-up Jason. Not entirely sure why I didn't engage brain to provide an example...! 8-|

Jason C. Levine

Rouchie,

No worries. You've done that enough times to me when I provide an answer that needs clarification :)

johnhardy

ASKER

Thanks very much for the help.

I am getting there OK gradually.

I didnt understand Jasons @media screen answer and dont have the time right now to persue this.

Anyway Thanks again John

Rouchie

Although I don't use this approach, I believe this means

@media screen {
h1 {font-size:20pt; color:#ff0000;}
}

@media print {
h1 {font-size:12pt; color:#0000ff;}
}

that the above code will print H1 headers in blue, but display them in red on the screen, with different font sizes too. It allows you to specify BOTH sets of appearances in the same style sheet.

My approach is to create 2 stylesheets, one for screen and one for print. They each contain the same style names but with different formatting for each. I link both sheets in as follows (again borrowing from Jason's answer)...

<link href="../printstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" />
<link href="../screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />

Jason C. Levine

John,

Rouchie explains my answer correctly.

There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two solutions. I just prefer to have one file instead of two (or three, if I'm also designing for a handheld) whenever possible.

Thanks for the assist.

J

johnhardy

ASKER

Thanks for the further help, promise I will work on it!
Cheers