print this page link

Hi, I am trying to make a printer friendly version with a 'print this page'
text link. So far I have found none of them work on the macintosh. Does
anyone know of what I can do to make it work? here are the three I have
tried so far...

1. <A HREF="#" onClick="window.print();return false">Print this Page</A>

2. <a href="javascriptrint()">Print This Page</a>

3. adding this to the head of the document
<script>
function print_page(where){
var is_mac=(navigator.platform.indexOf("ac") != -1);
(document.all && is_mac)?
alert("Select \"Print\" from the menu") : where? where.window.print() :
window.print();
}
</script>

then the link is: <a href="javascriptrint_page()">Print this</a>

Number three at least got a result, but not the one intended...I got an
Internet Explorer Script Alert 'Select "Print" from the menu"

I am on OS 9.2.2, IE 5.1.7

It isn't that the mac users won't automatically know to go to the print
menu, but I would like to know if there is a print this page link that works
cross browser/os systems...

tia
Barbara

Hi, I am trying to make a printer friendly version with a 'print this page'
text link. So far I have found none of them work on the macintosh.
Js doesn't have access to a print command on macintosh afaik.

you could sniff for platform and put an escape to an Alert in the function-
"Please use the Print button in your Browser's Menu"

or put the entire function inside of a platform sniffer so it doesn't even
put the Print this Page link on the page if it's a mac.

If it's a popup window with no toolbar so windows users don't see a print
button on the browser window- Mac users will still have access to the
browser's menu to File-->Print

Seems like too much work when the user just needs to go to their browser
window and click the print button. So, thanks for the info, I will just add

"Please use the Print button in your Browser's Menu"

Hi, I am trying to make a printer friendly version with a 'print this page'
text link. So far I have found none of them work on the macintosh.
Js doesn't have access to a print command on macintosh afaik.

you could sniff for platform and put an escape to an Alert in the function-
"Please use the Print button in your Browser's Menu"

or put the entire function inside of a platform sniffer so it doesn't even
put the Print this Page link on the page if it's a mac.

If it's a popup window with no toolbar so windows users don't see a print
button on the browser window- Mac users will still have access to the
browser's menu to File-->Print

That's the intended result of that script for Mac users.

You cannot trigger a programmatic print in IE5/Mac.

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"arizona" <tangled (AT) mAsAn (DOT) com> wrote

Hi, I am trying to make a printer friendly version with a 'print this
page'
text link. So far I have found none of them work on the macintosh. Does
anyone know of what I can do to make it work? here are the three I have
tried so far...

1. <A HREF="#" onClick="window.print();return false">Print this Page</A

2. <a href="javascriptrint()">Print This Page</a

3. adding this to the head of the document
script
function print_page(where){
var is_mac=(navigator.platform.indexOf("ac") != -1);
(document.all && is_mac)?
alert("Select \"Print\" from the menu") : where? where.window.print() :
window.print();
}
/script

then the link is: <a href="javascriptrint_page()">Print this</a

Number three at least got a result, but not the one intended...I got an
Internet Explorer Script Alert 'Select "Print" from the menu"

I am on OS 9.2.2, IE 5.1.7

It isn't that the mac users won't automatically know to go to the print
menu, but I would like to know if there is a print this page link that
works
cross browser/os systems...

tia
Barbara