Re: Generating a 'pop-up' from cgi-a

Quoting John Day <johnday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> At 04:19 PM 6/7/2004, John Day wrote:
> >I have an application where I want to generate a 'printable invoice' in a
> separate window. Preferably I would like the browser page to not have
> toolbars and all that, just a simple link at the bottom that has an 
> 'onClick' event calling the window.print() method in it. How do I set up the
> headers to force the output to a new window and how do I turn off all the
> unnecessary 'stuff' on the browser window?
> 
> Did I really say that? My brain is scrambled today. No, I want them to print
> it by hitting ctrl-P! I can't use the onClick without JS can i!

It did sound rather confusing :)  

However, even with the clarification, your question really has nothing to do
with CGI::Application, which makes me believe that you mistook this list for a
general CGI mailing list.

That having been said, the easiest way to do this is to use stylesheets.  You
can provide a stylesheet with the media attribute set to 'print'.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style/normal.css" type="text/css" media="all"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style/print.css" type="text/css" media="print"/>

Then your stylesheet can define what should be visible, or invisible.  WHen the
user does a print preview, or just a Ctrl-P the result will be rendered using
the 'print' stylesheet instead of the 'normal' one.

Hope that helps...

Cees

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