Printing numerous pages through javascript

@felgallJun 12.2007 — #The only command that JavaScript has that relates to printing is window.print(). Anything else you want to do with printing has to be done by a program installed on that computer and can't be done from a web page.

@slaughtersJun 12.2007 — #You can print numerous pages via JavaScript if all the pages are in your domain. Useful for printing a lot of your own web pages. Not so useful for printing pages which belong to to others.

The basic steps are:

Write a page that uses javascript to assign a page to the src of an iframe.

Print the iframe.

Load next page.

Continue till done.

very very quick example:

[code=html]<html>
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 <title>Load and Print</title>
 <script>
 var i = 0;
 var PrintPages=["page1.html","page2.html","page3.html"]
 
 function PrintFrames() {
 
 // Load new URL into iframe if we have not gone through all yet.
 if (i < PrintPages.length ) {
 print_frameObj = document.getElementById("print_frame");
 print_frameObj.src = PrintPages[i];
 print_frame.print();
 i++;
 }
 
 }
 </script>
 </head>
 
 <body>
 <iframe id="print_frame" name="print_frame" Onload="PrintFrames();"></iframe>
 </body>
 </html>[/code]

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