Stopping certain page items from printing

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March 4th, 2004, 11:48 AM

stevie17

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Stopping certain page items from printing

Does anyone know how to set items on my page to not print. For example of a page which displays a report I would like a piece of text linking to another page and an image not to print out.
E.g
Page.asp

Title Graphic
TABLE OF RESULTS
...............................................
...............................................
...............................................
Author
Date
<link>Return to Main Reporting Page<link>

How do I set it so as the graphic and bottom link aren't printed off when I print the report

March 4th, 2004, 06:06 PM

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I recently had to do this with an HTML page. Not sure if this is the best way to do this since it won't work with old browsers, but...

There is a print link on my page. The href looks like this:

<a href="javascript

rintThis();">Print</a>

The function more or less does this:

function()
{
hidecertaintables();
window.print();
}

The hidecertain tables function would literally hide certain tables temporarily. It would change the display style in a div wrapped around a table...

<div id="test1" style="display:inline">
<table>...table stuff...</table>
</div>

The code is something like this:

function hidecertaintables()
{
document.all.test1.style.display == 'none';
}

At this point, the table disappears. The to set it back:

function showtables()
{
document.all.test1.style.display == 'inline';
// or loop through all elements and show all tables
}

Then you show the tables again. I hope this helps. It was only way I could figure out how to do it. If there is a better way, someone please speak up!

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March 4th, 2004, 06:10 PM

dcarva

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Now that I think about it, even though it works, my example might be too much work for what you want. I would wait and see if anyone else replies.

August 4th, 2004, 11:34 AM

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try css

How about using a style sheet, I'm not sure if you're using these anyway if you are this is another to use for printing.
Put this in the <head> of your doc <link href="someStyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print">
it's the media="print" thats the important part.if you want not to print a graphic in the <img> tag place class="noPrint" and in the style sheet put
.noPrint {
display: none;
}
and do the same for anything else you don't want to print

November 15th, 2004, 01:41 PM

tgimages

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Eliminating IE's stuff

http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/sxdownload.asp

I was trying to get the URL, date, etc. not to print. No way to do it from with ASP, but the above link is to an app I found that will do this. Took me 2 minutes to downlaod and implement. Very easy. Free for basic usage too. (and no, I have no affiliation to them).

-G

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