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MiKuS · Nov 22nd, 2007, 9:50 PM

for those who don't know what lightwindow is:
http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/

Now, my aim is to load up an image, and have a print button somewhere on the lightwindow, so user can print out a single image.

My first thought was to have lightwindow load up an external html file with a link, which when clicked runs the following javascript:

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javascript:window.print();

The problem with this is that it prints both the page in the background and the lightwindow.

Now I figured out how i can solve this:
consider index.html as the page running lightwindow
consider image1.html as the page linking the target image with a link, linking to itself.

on index.html, assign the class "lightwindow page-options" to the anchor and have the link pointing to image1.html as per:

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<a href="coupon1.html" title="Image One" params="lightwindow_width=407,lightwindow_height=330" class="lightwindow page-options"><img src="image1.html"></a>

and then on image1.html consider the following code:

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<body onload="javascript:window.print();">
<p><img src="image1.png"/></p>
<p><br><a href="image1.html" class="print">Print This Coupon</a></p>
</body>

The above solutions works, but i don't like the way it works - I feel there is an easier way I'm missing.

Does anybody know any other ways I could go about this?

Nov 22nd, 2007, 9:50 PM	#1
MiKuS Programmer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 2	Printing lightwindow content for those who don't know what lightwindow is: http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/ Now, my aim is to load up an image, and have a print button somewhere on the lightwindow, so user can print out a single image. My first thought was to have lightwindow load up an external html file with a link, which when clicked runs the following javascript: (Toggle Plain Text) javascript:window.print(); javascript<b></b>:window.print(); The problem with this is that it prints both the page in the background and the lightwindow. Now I figured out how i can solve this: consider index.html as the page running lightwindow consider image1.html as the page linking the target image with a link, linking to itself. on index.html, assign the class "lightwindow page-options" to the anchor and have the link pointing to image1.html as per: (Toggle Plain Text) <a href="coupon1.html" title="Image One" params="lightwindow_width=407,lightwindow_height=330" class="lightwindow page-options"><img src="image1.html"></a> <a href="coupon1.html" title="Image One" params="lightwindow_width=407,lightwindow_height=330" class="lightwindow page-options"><img src="image1.html"></a> and then on image1.html consider the following code: (Toggle Plain Text) <body onload="javascript:window.print();"> <p><img src="image1.png"/></p> <p><br><a href="image1.html" class="print">Print This Coupon</a></p> </body> <body onload="javascript<b></b>:window.print();"> <p><img src="image1.png"/></p> <p><br><a href="image1.html" class="print">Print This Coupon</a></p> </body> The above solutions works, but i don't like the way it works - I feel there is an easier way I'm missing. Does anybody know any other ways I could go about this?

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