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Printing a web page problem using print()

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May 20.2007

Hi,

I have the following function…

[code]
function printFile(){
myprint.style.visibility=’hidden’;
window.print();
myprint.style.visibility=’visible’;
}

[/code]

The HTML code is…

[code]
<a href=”javascript:onClick=printFile()”>
<img id=”myprint” border=”0″ src=”//images/sm_print.gif” width=”70″ height=”21″></a>

[/code]

The problem is that it will print the gif image, at least in FireFox; IE prints it without the gif image. Is there something I can do to get the gif image NOT to print for both browsers?

Thanks…

I know it will not print if I don’t make the image visible again but I want the image back up there after printing if the window is left open!

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@Tweak4May 21.2007 — Instead of hiding and showing the image, it might be easier just to set up a separate stylesheet with a "print" media type, and then use CSS in that stylesheet to hide anything you don't want printed.
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@Mike_BurdickauthorMay 21.2007 — Tweak4,

Hmmmm, that may be the way to go - need to think about that for a while. By the way, can I produce that page so it never shows up on the screen? As it is now the page I want printed is produced by a perl script on the fly.
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