How :javascript call print preview
Posted by: hernk on: 13 April 2007
- In: Javascript
- Comment!
I found the script from jguru to call print preview from javascript.
I dont know whats the limitations, but its works perfectly as I expected.
Here is the script :
<html>
<head>
<title>Print Preview</title>
<script>
function printpr()
{
var OLECMDID = 7;
/* OLECMDID values:
* 6 – print
* 7 – print preview
* 1 – open window
* 4 – Save As
*/
var PROMPT = 1; // 2 DONTPROMPTUSER
var WebBrowser = ‘<OBJECT ID=”WebBrowser1″ WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 CLASSID=”CLSID:8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2″></OBJECT>’;
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML(‘beforeEnd’, WebBrowser);
WebBrowser1.ExecWB(OLECMDID, PROMPT);
WebBrowser1.outerHTML = “”;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type=’button’ value=”Print Preview” onclick=”printpr();”>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance Ravi Verelly for the script.
17 Responses to "How :javascript call print preview"
11 September 2008 at 9:59 pm
Well. I don’t think it works fine with IE 7.
Did you test?
src: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251133/en-us/
Regards.
12 September 2008 at 1:51 am
for Dhunk and Jack :
I’ll try with PSP using IE7 it work, but it has some limitations.
but I forgot whats the limitations.
Maybe You could find with some experiment and some tricky
2 November 2008 at 8:26 am
Thank you for your website 
I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace or youtube and whatever
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6rbxmr
have a good day and thank you again!
12 November 2008 at 12:43 pm
hi
Excellent Job done and Thank You For the code
Most Comprehensive code for printing and other tasks,but didn’t find the page setup one?
Can You help?
14 April 2009 at 1:54 pm
for some reason when I copied the code from here it didn’t work ((
But when I modified it slightly it worked just fine. I am using IE7 and didn’t try it on anything else. I think the problem was with wrong quotes originally. Sorry, if this repeatation is inappropriate, but I thought it might help someone.
function printpr()
{
var OLECMDID = 7;
/* OLECMDID values:
* 6 – print
* 7 – print preview
* 1 – open window
* 4 – Save As
*/
var PROMPT = 1; // 2 DONTPROMPTUSER
var WebBrowser = ”;
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML(‘beforeEnd’, WebBrowser);
WebBrowser1.ExecWB(OLECMDID, PROMPT);
WebBrowser1.outerHTML = “”;
}
14 April 2009 at 1:58 pm
Oops, it didn’t work right the first time and there is no option to change what I posted. So here is another try
!
!
function printpr()
{
var OLECMDID = 7;
/* OLECMDID values:
* 6 – print
* 7 – print preview
* 1 – open window
* 4 – Save As
*/
var PROMPT = 1; // 2 DONTPROMPTUSER
var WebBrowser = ”;
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML(‘beforeEnd’, WebBrowser);
WebBrowser1.ExecWB(OLECMDID, PROMPT);
WebBrowser1.outerHTML = “”;
}
!
!
1 June 2009 at 12:37 pm
Hi,
Can you pls send me the full code as email so that it would be of great use!
Thanks
14 April 2009 at 2:00 pm
Well… seems I cannot post it right here. Tag signs are screwed up. You can delete these comments, there’s no use of them like this.
13 August 2009 at 3:45 pm
It works fine in IE .
if it is not working-mostly because your IE already disable ActiveXobject. Please enable it.
Firefox is not support for this code.
Firefox browser have its own print preview function -You can call the nsIWebBrowserPrint::PrintPreview() method.
Or simple way to do is using popup window to do the print preview job.more easier ~ ^_^
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13 April 2007 at 1:29 pm
Note about Scripting Support for Web Page Printing from microsoft
WebBrowser is known to support OLECMDID_PRINT(6,1) and OLECMDID_PAGESETUP(8) printing related commands
The trick is to create a temporary WebBrowser object with DHTML and invoke ExecWB(6, 1) on it to print the page.
ExecWB(6, 1) could fail if a user selected the Cancel button on the print dialog
for detail article click :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms976105.aspx