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Printing Just A Div Content With JS print()

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Oct 01.2007

How can I create a button when clicked, that just prints the content of a div, not the entire window? I tried:

onclick=”document.getElementById(“myDiv”).print();”

But I get object doesnt support this method. Is this possible?

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@Mr_JOct 01.2007 — Take a look at this example, see if it helps you out

www.huntingground.freeserve.co.uk/scripts/printing.htm
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@WebnerdOct 01.2007 — <i>
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function printSelection(node){

var content=node.innerHTML
var pwin=window.open('','print_content','width=100,height=100');

pwin.document.open();
pwin.document.write('&lt;html&gt;&lt;body onload="window.print()"&gt;'+content+'&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;');
pwin.document.close();

setTimeout(function(){pwin.close();},1000);

}


Example:

<i>
</i>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;

function printSelection(node){

var content=node.innerHTML
var pwin=window.open('','print_content','width=100,height=100');

pwin.document.open();
pwin.document.write('&lt;html&gt;&lt;body onload="window.print()"&gt;'+content+'&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;');
pwin.document.close();

setTimeout(function(){pwin.close();},1000);

}
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;div id="test"&gt;
this is a test

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;a href="" onclick="printSelection(document.getElementById('test'));return false"&gt;print&lt;/a&gt;
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