How do I print the indicated div (without manually disabling all other content on the page)?
I want to avoid a new preview dialog, so creating a new window with this content is not useful.
The page contains a couple of tables, one of them contains the div I want to print - the table is styled with visual styles for the web, that should not show in print.
All the answers so far are pretty flawed - they either involve adding class="noprint" to everything or will mess up display within #printable.
I think the best solution would be to create a wrapper around the non-printable stuff:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#printable { display: none; }
@media print
{
#non-printable { display: none; }
#printable { display: block; }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="non-printable">
Your normal page contents
</div>
<div id="printable">
Printer version
</div>
</body>
Of course this is not perfect as it involves moving things around in your HTML a bit...
Could you use a print stylesheet, and use CSS to arrange the content you wanted printed? Read this article for more pointers.
Give whatever element you want to print the id printMe.
Include this script in your head tag:
<script language="javascript">
var gAutoPrint = true;
function processPrint(){
if (document.getElementById != null){
var html = '<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n';
if (document.getElementsByTagName != null){
var headTags = document.getElementsByTagName("head");
if (headTags.length > 0) html += headTags[0].innerHTML;
}
html += '\n</HE' + 'AD>\n<BODY>\n';
var printReadyElem = document.getElementById("printMe");
if (printReadyElem != null) html += printReadyElem.innerHTML;
else{
alert("Error, no contents.");
return;
}
html += '\n</BO' + 'DY>\n</HT' + 'ML>';
var printWin = window.open("","processPrint");
printWin.document.open();
printWin.document.write(html);
printWin.document.close();
if (gAutoPrint) printWin.print();
} else alert("Browser not supported.");
}
</script>
Call the function
<a href="javascript:void(processPrint());">Print</a>
hm ... use the type of a stylsheet for printing ... eg:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print" />
print.css:
div { display: none; }
#yourdiv { display: block; }
The Best way to Print particular Div or any Element
printDiv("myDiv");
function printDiv(id){
var printContents = document.getElementById(id).innerHTML;
var originalContents = document.body.innerHTML;
document.body.innerHTML = printContents;
window.print();
document.body.innerHTML = originalContents;
}
Without CSS clowning, html and pure javascript with iframe does its work best. Then simply click the text, you want to print. Current example for id elements with text content;
html body:
<div id="monitor" onclick="idElementPrint()">text i want to print</div>
pure javascript:
//or: monitor.textContent = "click me to print textual content";
const idElementPrint = () => {
let ifram = document.createElement("iframe");
ifram.style = "display:none";
document.body.appendChild(ifram);
pri = ifram.contentWindow;
pri.document.open();
pri.document.write(monitor.textContent);
pri.document.close();
pri.focus();
pri.print();
}
printDiv(divId): A generalized solution to print any div on any page.
I had a similar issue but I wanted (a) to be able to print the whole page, or (b) print any one of several specific areas. My solution, thanks to much of the above, allows you to specify any div object to be printed.
The key for this solution is to add an appropriate rule to the the print media style sheet so that the requested div (and its contents) will be printed.
First, create the needed print css to suppress everything (but without the specific rule to allow the element you want to print).
<style type="text/css" media="print">
body {visibility:hidden; }
.noprintarea {visibility:hidden; display:none}
.noprintcontent { visibility:hidden; }
.print { visibility:visible; display:block; }
</style>
Note that I have added new class rules:
Then insert three JavaScript functions. The first merely toggles the print media style sheet on and off.
function disableSheet(thisSheet,setDisabled)
{ document.styleSheets[thisSheet].disabled=setDisabled; }
The second does the real work and the third cleans up afterward. The second (printDiv) activates the print media style sheet, then appends a new rule to allow the desired div to print, issues the print, and then adds a delay before the final housekeeping (otherwise the styles can be reset before the print is actually done.)
function printDiv(divId)
{
// Enable the print CSS: (this temporarily disables being able to print the whole page)
disableSheet(0,false);
// Get the print style sheet and add a new rule for this div
var sheetObj=document.styleSheets[0];
var showDivCSS="visibility:visible;display:block;position:absolute;top:30px;left:30px;";
if (sheetObj.rules) { sheetObj.addRule("#"+divId,showDivCSS); }
else { sheetObj.insertRule("#"+divId+"{"+showDivCSS+"}",sheetObj.cssRules.length); }
print();
// need a brief delay or the whole page will print
setTimeout("printDivRestore()",100);
}
The final functions deletes the added rule and sets the print style again to disabled so the whole page can be printed.
function printDivRestore()
{
// remove the div-specific rule
var sheetObj=document.styleSheets[0];
if (sheetObj.rules) { sheetObj.removeRule(sheetObj.rules.length-1); }
else { sheetObj.deleteRule(sheetObj.cssRules.length-1); }
// and re-enable whole page printing
disableSheet(0,true);
}
The only other thing to do is to add one line to your onload processing so that the print style is initially disabled thereby allowing whole page printing.
<body onLoad='disableSheet(0,true)'>
Then, from anywhere in your document, you can print a div. Just issue printDiv("thedivid") from a button or whatever.
A big plus for this approach it provides a general solution to printing selected content from within a page. It also allows use of existing styles for elements that are printed - including the containing div.
NOTE: In my implementation, this must be the first style sheet. Change the sheet references (0) to the appropriate sheet number if you need to make it later in the sheet sequence.
Sandro's method works great.
I tweaked it to allow for allowing multiple printMe links, particularily to be used in tabbed pages and expanding text.
function processPrint(printMe){ <-- calling for a variable here
var printReadyElem = document.getElementById(printMe); <-- removed the quotes around printMe to ask for a variable
<a href="javascript:void(processPrint('divID'));">Print</a> <-- passing the div ID to be printed on to the function to turn the printMe variable into the div ID. single quotes are needed
You could use a separate CSS style which disables every other content except the one with the id "printarea".
See CSS Design: Going to Print for further explanation and examples.
I picked up the content using JavaScript and created a window that I could print in stead...
I tried many of the solutions provided.None of them worked perfectly. They either lose CSS or JavaScript bindings. I found a perfect and easy solution that neither losses CSS nor JavaScript bindings.
HTML:
<div id='printarea'>
<p>This is a sample text for printing purpose.</p>
<input type='button' id='btn' value='Print' onclick='printFunc();'>
</div>
<p>Do not print.</p>
Javascript:
function printFunc() {
var divToPrint = document.getElementById('printarea');
var htmlToPrint = '' +
'<style type="text/css">' +
'table th, table td {' +
'border:1px solid #000;' +
'padding;0.5em;' +
'}' +
'</style>';
htmlToPrint += divToPrint.outerHTML;
newWin = window.open("");
newWin.document.write("<h3 align='center'>Print Page</h3>");
newWin.document.write(htmlToPrint);
newWin.print();
newWin.close();
}
I'm very late to this party, but I'd like to pitch in with yet another approach. I wrote a tiny JavaScript module called PrintElements for dynamically printing parts of a webpage.
It works by iterating through selected node elements, and for each node, it traverses up the DOM tree until the BODY element. At each level, including the initial one (which is the to-be-printed node’s level), it attaches a marker class (pe-preserve-print) to the current node. Then attaches another marker class (pe-no-print) to all siblings of the current node, but only if there is no pe-preserve-print class on them. As a third act, it also attaches another class to preserved ancestor elements pe-preserve-ancestor.
A dead-simple supplementary print-only css will hide and show respective elements. Some benefits of this approach is that all styles are preserved, it does not open a new window, there is no need to move around a lot of DOM elements, and generally it is non-invasive with your original document.
See the demo, or read the related article for further details.
I found the solution.
@media print {
.print-area {
background-color: white;
height: 100%;
width: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
z-index:1500;
visibility: visible;
}
@page{
size: portrait;
margin: 1cm;
}
/*IF print-area parent element is position:absolute*/
.ui-dialog,
.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-content{
position:unset !important;
visibility: hidden;
}
}
All answers have trade-offs and cannot be used for all cases. They fall into 3 categories:
Use a printing style sheet. This requires building the whole website to be print-aware.
Hide all elements in <body> and only show the printable element. This works nicely for simple pages, but it is tricky for complex pages.
Open a new window with the content of the printable element or replace the <body> content with the content of the element. The first will lose all styles, and the second is messy and can break events.
There is no one solution that will work well for all cases, so it is good to have all those choices and I'm adding another solution that works much better in some cases. This solution is a hybrid of two categories: hide all content of <body>, then copy the content of the printable element to a new <div> and append it to <body>. After printing, remove the newly added <div> and show the content of <body> back. This way, you won't lose the styles or events, and you don't mess up with opening a new window. But like all other solutions, it won't work well for all cases. If your printable element's styles depends on its parents, you'll lose those styles. It is still much easier to style your printable elements independently from its parents than having to style the entire website for printing.
The only hurdle is figuring out how to select all content of <body>. For simple pages, the generic style body>* will do the trick. However, complex pages usually have <script> tags at the end of body' and also some `s that are used for dialogs, etc. Hiding all those is fine, but you don't want to show them after printing.
In my case, I build all may websites with three sections inside <body>: <header>, <footer>, and between them <div id="Content">. Adjust the first line of the function below for your case:
function PrintArea(selector) {
//First hide all content in body.
var all = $("body > header, body > #Content, body > footer")
all.hide();
//Append a div for printing.
$("body").append('<div id="PrintMe">');
//Copy content of printing area to the printing div.
var p = $("#PrintMe");
p.html($(selector).html());
//Call the print dialog.
window.print();
//Remove the printing div.
p.remove();
//Show all content in body.
all.show();
}
I used jQuery because it's cleaner and simpler, but you can easily convert it to vanilla JavaScript if you like. And of course, you can change var to let as recommended for the local variables.
It's better solution. You can use it Angualr/React
Html
<div class="row" id="printableId">
Your html
</div>
Javascript
function printPage(){
var printHtml = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=400,width=600');
printHtml.document.write('<html><head>');
printHtml.document.write(document.getElementById("printableId").innerHTML);
printHtml.document.write('</body></html>');
printHtml.document.close();
printHtml.focus(); = 10*/
printHtml.print();
printHtml.close();
return true;
}
I tried many of the solutions provided.None of them worked perfectly. They either lose CSS or doesn't work in all browsers. I found a perfect and easy solution that neither losses CSS and work perfectly for all browsers.
Html
<div class="row" id="print-div">
Your html
</div>
TYPESCRIPT
let popupWin = window.open('', '_blank', 'width=1080,height=595');
let printContents = document.getElementById("print-div").innerHTML;
let printHead = document.head.innerHTML;
popupWin.document
.write(`<html>
${printHead}
<body onload="window.print();">${printContents}</body></html>`);
popupWin.document.close();
Use a special Stylesheet for printing
<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
and then add a class i.e. "noprint" to every tag which's content you don't want to print.
In the CSS use
.noprint {
display: none;
}
If you only want to print this div, you must use the instruction:
@media print{
*{display:none;}
#mydiv{display:block;}
}
I had multiple images each with a button and needed to click on a button to print each div with an image. This solution works if I have disabled cache in my browser, and the image size doesn't change in Chrome:
function printDiv(divName) {
var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
w = window.open();
w.document.write(printContents);
w.document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript">' + 'window.onload = function() { window.print(); window.close(); };' + '</sc' + 'ript>');
w.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
w.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10
return true;
}
<div id="printableArea">
<h1>Print me</h1>
</div>
<input type="button" onclick="printDiv('printableArea')" value="print a div!" />
My approach - Simple CSS and JS. Works on React/NextJS too.
const handlePrint = e => {
e.preventDefault();
const bodyElement = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
bodyElement.classList.add('printing');
window.print();
bodyElement.classList.remove('printing');
};
.printing {
visibility:hidden;
}
.printView {
visibility:visible;
}
.printing .printView {
/* You can have any CSS here to make the view better on print */
position:absolute;
top:0;
}
What it does?
.printing class to body element. With CSS we hide all body content with visibility:hidden;.printing .printView to have any kind of view we want for the print area.window.print();.printing class from the body element when the user cancels / prints.Example:
<button onclick="handlePrint">
Download PDF
</button>
<div>
<h1>Don't print this</h1>
<div class="printView">Print this</div>
</div>
Let me know if this helps anyone :)
base on @Kevin Florida answer, i made a way to avoid script on current page disable because of overwrite content. I use other file called "printScreen.php" (or .html). Wrap everything you want to print in a div "printSource". And with javascript, open a new window you created before ("printScreen.php") then grab content in "printSource" of top window.
Here is the code.
Main window :
echo "<div id='printSource'>";
//everything you want to print here
echo "</div>";
//add button or link to print
echo "<button id='btnPrint'>Print</button>";
<script>
$("#btnPrint").click(function(){
printDiv("printSource");
});
function printDiv(divName) {
var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
var originalContents = document.body.innerHTML;
w=window.open("printScreen.php", "_blank", "toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,top=50,left=50,width=900,height=400");
}
</script>
This is "printScreen.php" - other file to grab content to print
<head>
// write everything about style/script here (.css, .js)
</head>
<body id='mainBody'></body>
</html>
<script>
//get everything you want to print from top window
src = window.opener.document.getElementById("printSource").innerHTML;
//paste to "mainBody"
$("#mainBody").html(src);
window.print();
window.close();
</script>