printer friendly implementation

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm implementing a printer friendly feature for all the pages on a web site.
I'm separating the header, content, and footer into separate ascx files,
which are contained in the main file. In the mail file I have a link button
which, supposedly, when clicked on, passes the current content page's url and
page title to the printer friendly page, which has a placeholder for the
content page. I could do this with session variables, but if I do it this
way, how do I make a function common to all to accomplish this? I can't use
a class file with session variables, so I'm trying to post all the content
pages to the printer friendly page but have had no luck so far. Can I use
javascript for this? Or can this be accomplished with code behind? Any
suggestions and/or comments will be greatly appreciated!

Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance!

-ST

 

[Guest]

Hi

Please check the following article
http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/printview.asp

HTH
Ravikanth[MVP]

 

[Colin Young]

Another option that works in modern browsers that are at least mostly
standards-compliant (and that includes IE 6 which is how old now?) is to use
CSS to define a print style sheet. See
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ It's a much easier option
than the traditional method of launching a new page.

Colin